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14-letter words containing b, u, t, y

  • cubic capacity — the volume of cylinder of an engine
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • guantanamo bay — a bay on the SE coast of Cuba.
  • 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
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
  • implausibility — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • indubitability — that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
  • ineluctability — The state or condition of being ineluctable.
  • injury benefit — money paid to someone who has sustained an injury
  • innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
  • inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
  • 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.
  • kentucky derby — a horse race for three-year-olds, run annually since 1875, on the first Saturday in May, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.: the first race in the Triple Crown.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
  • 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
  • liability suit — a claim for damages based on the plaintiff's claim of the defendant's liability
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • manipulability — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
  • methylene blue — a dark-green, crystalline compound, C 1 6 H 1 8 ClN 3 S, that dissolves in water to form a deep-blue solution: used chiefly as a dye, as a bacteriological and biological stain, and as an antidote for cyanide poisoning.
  • military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
  • non-ambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
  • obstreperously — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
  • olfactory bulb — the enlarged terminal part of each olfactory lobe from which the olfactory nerve originates.
  • painted beauty — a butterfly, Vanessa virginiensis, having brownish-black and orange wings, the hind wings each having two eyespots.
  • penalty double — business double.
  • phenylbutazone — a potent substance, C 1 9 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used to reduce pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and gout, and used in veterinary medicine for musculoskeletal disorders.
  • pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • productibility — the ability to produce
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