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14-letter words containing b, u, i, s

  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • husein ibn-ali — 1856–1931, 1st king of Hejaz 1916–24.
  • implausibility — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
  • in sb's honour — If something is arranged or happens in someone's honour, it is done specially to show appreciation of them.
  • incense burner — container in which fragrance is burned
  • inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
  • inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • insuppressible — incapable of being suppressed; irrepressible: his insuppressible humor.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
  • irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
  • irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
  • justiciability — (legal): The ability of a subject matter to be evaluated and resolved by a court.
  • justifiability — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
  • kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
  • labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • leibniz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
  • liability suit — a claim for damages based on the plaintiff's claim of the defendant's liability
  • libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
  • license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • messier number — a number (preceded by M) designating the 109 double stars, clusters, nebulae, and galaxies in the Messier catalog.
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
  • miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
  • nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
  • neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
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