14-letter words containing c, a, b, e
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
- delectableness — The state or quality of being delectable.
- describability — The quality of being describable.
- despicableness — The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- 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.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
- dodecasyllable — a word or line of verse containing 12 syllables.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- emblematically — In an emblematic manner.
- energy balance — An energy balance is a consideration of the energy input, output, and consumption or generation in a process or stage.
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- enterobacteria — (microbiology) Plural form of enterobacterium.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
- 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
- exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
- excess baggage — luggage exceeding weight allowance
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- extractability — (uncountable) The condition of being extractable.
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- eyeball search — (jargon) (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
- freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
- frequency band — band2 (def 9).
- gabriel marcel — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1887–1973, French philosopher, dramatist, and critic.
- general public — people in general
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- hebrew-aramaic — a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic