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14-letter words containing n, e, o, l, i, b

  • diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
  • diagonalizable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalized
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
  • disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
  • disposableness — Disposability.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • 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 glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
  • exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
  • expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • flexible joint — A flexible joint is a coupling which can transmit torque between two shafts which are not aligned.
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
  • food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • 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)
  • google bombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
  • google-bombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
  • helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
  • imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.
  • impossibleness — Quality of being impossible.
  • impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
  • in one's blood — If a quality or talent is in your blood, it is part of your nature, and other members of your family have it too.
  • inapproachable — not approachable.
  • incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
  • incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
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