14-letter words containing b, u, o, e
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- george hw bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- have bought it — to be killed
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
- homeward bound — going home
- honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
- hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
- imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
- incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
- irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
- job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
- journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
- labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
- land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- lumbersomeness — the state of being lumbersome
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- molecular beam — a stream of molecules freed from a substance, usually a salt, by evaporation and then passed through a narrow slit for focusing, for investigating the properties of nuclei, atoms, and molecules.
- money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- mother hubbard — a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.
- 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
- mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- network number — network address
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.