14-letter words containing d, e, b, a, u
- butyl aldehyde — butyraldehyde
- cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
- cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
- ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
- debutante ball — a formal ball at which young women of upper-class background are presented to society
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
- do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- double bassoon — a bassoon an octave lower in pitch than the ordinary bassoon: the largest and deepest-toned instrument of the oboe class; contrabassoon.
- double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
- double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
- 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 spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- draw-out table — draw table.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- 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
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- frequency band — band2 (def 9).
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
- homeward bound — going home
- hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
- image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.