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14-letter words containing d, u, b, i, o

  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
  • double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
  • double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
  • double-jointed — (of particular people or animals) having unusually flexible joints that can bend in unusual ways or to abnormally great extent.
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • 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
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
  • inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
  • indian buffalo — a member of the cattle tribe, Bubalus bubalis, of swampy regions of S Asia, having widely spreading back-curving horns. Domesticated forms are used as draught animals
  • indigo bunting — a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
  • 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.
  • muni bond fund — municipal bond fund.
  • municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
  • non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
  • non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • non-subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
  • 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).
  • oversubscribed — If something such as an event or a service is oversubscribed, too many people apply to attend the event or use the service.
  • pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
  • platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
  • plumbous oxide — litharge.
  • productibility — the ability to produce
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • public holiday — national day off work
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