16-letter words containing n, a, b, e, s
- dishonorableness — The property of being dishonorable.
- disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
- division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
- double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
- double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
- eastern kingbird — any of several American tyrant flycatchers of the genus Tyrannus, especially T. tyrannus (eastern kingbird) of North America, known for their pugnacious disposition toward predators.
- eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
- eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
- elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
- endocannabinoids — Plural form of endocannabinoid.
- expansion bottle — a tank collecting coolant from a radiator while an engine is heated, and from which the coolant returns to the radiator when the engine cools
- fancy dress ball — a ball at which the guests wear fancy dress
- fantasy baseball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
- fibonacci series — a sequence of integers in which each integer (Fibonacci number) after the second is the sum of the two preceding integers; specif., the series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, . . .
- fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
- flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
- flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
- flat-bed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
- forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
- fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
- gas blowoff line — A gas blowoff line is a safety device to control sudden increases in pressure.
- general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
- generalisability — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizability.
- go/be easy on sb — If you tell someone to go easy on, or be easy on, a particular person, you are telling them not to punish or treat that person very severely.
- green vegetables — green edible plants
- ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- have sb to thank — If you say that you have someone to thank for something, you mean that you are grateful to them because they caused it to happen.
- hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
- hendecasyllables — Plural form of hendecasyllable.
- horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
- horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- immeasurableness — The state or condition of being immeasurable.
- impenetrableness — The quality of being impenetrable.
- imperishableness — The characteristic or property of being imperishable.
- in the same boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- inaccessibleness — The quality or state of being inaccessible or unreachable.
- inapplicableness — The state or quality of being inapplicable; inapplicability.
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- inconsolableness — The quality of being inconsolable.
- incontestability — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
- indescribability — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
- indispensability — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
- indisputableness — The property of being indisputable.
- inexhaustibility — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
- inexplicableness — The state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable.
- inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.