14-letter words containing d, u, n, e, b
- 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).
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
- 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 coconut — a tall, stout, fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles Islands, having nuts that are the largest seeds of any plant, often weighing 50 pounds (22.6 kg): populations are declining.
- double density — floppy disk
- double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
- double entente — a double meaning; ambiguity.
- 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 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.
- double-tongued — deceitful; hypocritical.
- down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- 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.
- 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.
- exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
- founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- frequency band — band2 (def 9).
- 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.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
- 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.
- 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.
- jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
- 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