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14-letter words containing i, b, e

  • antirepublican — opposed to the principles or practice of republicanism
  • antisubversion — opposed to or acting against subversion
  • antitubercular — acting against tuberculosis
  • applicableness — applying or capable of being applied; relevant; suitable; appropriate: an applicable rule; a solution that is applicable to the problem.
  • arabia deserta — an ancient division of Arabia, in the N part between Syria and Mesopotamia.
  • arabia petraea — an ancient division of Arabia, in the NW part.
  • arabian coffee — a tall, widely cultivated shrub (Coffea arabica) of the madder family, yielding coffee beans that are the world's chief source of commercially produced coffee: native to Africa but now present throughout the tropics, esp. in Brazil
  • arabian desert — a desert in E Egypt, between the Nile, the Gulf of Suez, and the Red Sea: mountainous parts rise over 1800 m (6000 ft). Area: about 220 000 sq km (85 000 sq miles)
  • arabic numeral — one of the symbols 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (opposed to Roman numerals)
  • arable farming — the growing of arable crops
  • archaebacteria — (formerly) a group of microorganisms now regarded as members of the Archaea
  • archebacterium — (biology) alternative spelling of archaebacterium.
  • art exhibition — an exhibition of works of art such as pictures
  • as big as life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
  • asiatic beetle — a Japanese scarabaeid beetle, Anomala orientalis, introduced into Hawaii and the northeastern US: a serious pest of sugar cane and cereal crops because it destroys the roots
  • assembly point — a designated place where people have been told to wait after evacuating a building in the event of a fire or other emergency
  • associableness — The state or quality of being associable.
  • attainableness — The state or quality of being attainable.
  • attemptability — the capability of being attempted or condition of being attemptable
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • aussie battler — an Australian working-class person
  • autoantibodies — Plural form of autoantibody.
  • autobiographer — a person who writes the story of his or her own life
  • auxiliary verb — a verb used to indicate the tense, voice, mood, etc, of another verb where this is not indicated by inflection, such as English will in he will go, was in he was eating and he was eaten, do in I do like you, etc
  • availabilities — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
  • aviation badge — wings.
  • aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
  • babbling error — (networking)   An Ethernet node attempting to transmit more than 1518 data bytes - the largest allowed Ethernet packet. This is why the Maximum Transmission Unit for IP traffic on Ethernet is 1500.
  • babies'-breath — baby's breath
  • baby-battering — the physical abuse of a baby or young child
  • back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
  • backbreakingly — In a backbreaking manner.
  • backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).
  • backing singer — a singer providing a vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
  • backscattering — the scattering of rays or particles at angles to the original direction of motion of greater than 90°
  • backside cache — (hardware, processor)   An implementation of secondary cache memory that allows it to be directly accessed by the CPU. Backside cache is used by Apple Computers, Inc. in their PowerPC G3 processor. Previous PowerPC processors used the system bus to access both secondary cache and main memory. In the PowerPC G3 a dedicated bus handles only CPU/cache transactions. This bus can operate faster than the system bus thus improving the overall performance of the processor. The term apparently derives from the relocation of the secondary cache from the motherboard to the processor card itself, i.e. on the backside of the processor card.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • bacteriologist — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
  • bacteriophages — Plural form of bacteriophage.
  • bacteriostasis — inhibition of the growth and reproduction of bacteria, esp by the action of a chemical agent
  • bacteriostatic — the prevention of the further growth of bacteria.
  • bactrian camel — a two-humped camel, Camelus bactrianus, used as a beast of burden in the cold deserts of central Asia
  • badger baiting — an illegal sport in which dogs are encouraged to draw a badger out of its burrow and attack it
  • balance bridge — a bascule bridge
  • balance spring — hairspring.
  • balance weight — a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft
  • ball cartridge — a cartridge containing a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder
  • ballet slipper — a heelless cloth or leather slipper worn by ballet dancers.
  • ballon d'essai — a project or policy put forward experimentally to gauge reactions to it
  • balm of gilead — any of several trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora, esp C. opobalsamum of Africa and W Asia, that yield a fragrant oily resin
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