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14-letter words containing b, r, o, e

  • debenture bond — a corporate bond unsecured by any mortgage, dependent on the credit of the issuer.
  • debt collector — a person that collects debts on behalf of creditors
  • debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
  • decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
  • defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
  • defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
  • demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
  • deplorableness — The state or quality of being deplorable.
  • deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
  • dinitrobenzene — any of three isomeric benzene derivatives having the formula C 6 H 4 NO 2 , made by nitration of benzene or nitrobenzene, the most important of which is the meta form: used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
  • do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • docking bridge — a raised platform running from one side to the other of a ship toward the stern, used by officers for supervising docking operations.
  • double bedroom — a large bedroom
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • double dresser — a dresser having two long drawers across its width for most of its height.
  • double dribble — an infraction, resulting in loss of possession of the ball, occurring either when a player uses both hands simultaneously when dribbling or when a player interrupts a dribble by holding the ball momentarily in one or both hands.
  • double drummer — a type of cicada
  • double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • draw a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • draw-out table — draw table.
  • draw-top table — a table that can be extended by sliding one or more additional leaves into place
  • dropper bottle — A dropper bottle is a container from which medicine is administered using a device that lets the medicine out in drops.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
  • electrobiology — (physics, biology) The study of the production and use of electricity by biological organisms.
  • energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • enterobacteria — (microbiology) Plural form of enterobacterium.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
  • exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • fibrinopeptide — (protein) A polypeptide fragment, cleaved from fibrinogen by thrombin, that combines to form fibrin during blood-clotting.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
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