14-letter words containing d, e, b, u
- 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
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- 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.
- indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
- irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
- jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
- keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
- 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.
- land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- 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.
- multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
- nebuchadnezzar — Also, Nebuchadrezzar [neb-uh-kuh d-rez-er, neb-yoo-] /ˌnɛb ə kədˈrɛz ər, ˌnɛb yʊ-/ (Show IPA). a king of Babylonia, 604?–561? b.c., and conqueror of Jerusalem. II Kings 24, 25.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- neubrandenburg — a city in Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, in NE Germany.
- nibelungenlied — a Middle High German epic of c1200, related to the Scandinavian Volsunga Saga and telling of the life of Siegfried, his marriage to Kriemhild, his wooing of Brunhild on behalf of Gunther, his murder by Hagen, and the revenge of Kriemhild.
- nip in the bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- non-adjustable — capable of being adjusted: adjustable seat belts.
- non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
- non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
- nudibranchiate — nudibranch.
- objet de vertu — an object of virtu
- on the rebound — to bound or spring back from force of impact.
- ordinal number — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- outer hebrides — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- over-abundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overburdensome — excessively burdensome.