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14-letter words containing i, b, e

  • the betting is — If you say the betting is that something will happen or is true, you are suggesting that it is very likely to happen or to be true.
  • the bible belt — those states of the S US where Protestant fundamentalism is dominant
  • the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
  • the ice blacks — the international ice hockey team of New Zealand
  • the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
  • the mabinogion — a collection of Welsh tales based on old Celtic legends and mythology in which magic and the supernatural play a large part
  • the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
  • the-bostonians — a novel (1886) by Henry James.
  • the-mabinogion — a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.
  • theodore bilbo — Theodore Gilmore [gil-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈgɪl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1877–1947, U.S. Southern populist politician: senator 1935–47.
  • thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
  • third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
  • three-base hit — triple (def 7).
  • threepenny bit — a twelve-sided British coin of nickel-brass, valued at three old pence, obsolete since 1971
  • thromboembolic — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
  • thrombopoietin — a hormone that induces bone marrow cells to form blood platelets.
  • through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • ticket barrier — gate in train station
  • tilt-top table — a pedestal table having a top that can be tilted vertically.
  • timber cruiser — cruiser (def 6).
  • tintinnabulate — to ring
  • to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
  • to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • to sb's credit — If something is to someone's credit, they deserve praise for it.
  • toilet cubicle — a very small enclosed area containing a toilet
  • toluidine blue — a dark green powder, C15H16N3SCl·ZnCl2, used in dyeing textiles, as a biological stain, as a coagulant in medicine, etc.
  • totidem verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
  • trade barriers — any regulation or policy that restricts international trade, especially tariffs, quotas, etc.
  • training table — a table in a dining hall, as at a college, where athletes are provided with special meals to aid their conditioning.
  • trans-siberian — Russian Sibirʾ. an extensive region in the Russian Federation in N Asia, extending from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific.
  • transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.
  • transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
  • treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
  • trichobacteria — filamentous bacteria
  • trisubstituted — pertaining to a molecule containing three substituents.
  • trituberculate — (of a structure such as a tooth or bone) with three tubercles
  • trituberculism — the condition of being trituberculate
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • turbine engine — a rotary engine that converts kinetic energy of a moving fluid (water, steam, air, or combustion products of a fuel) into mechanical energy
  • turbo-electric — noting, pertaining to, or utilizing machinery that includes a generator driven by a turbine: turbo-electric engine; turbo-electric propulsion.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • ubiquitousness — existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent: ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • unalterability — the state or quality of not being alterable or not being able to be changed
  • unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
  • unattributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
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