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

  • 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.
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • 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.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
  • gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • general public — people in general
  • 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)
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • 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.
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • husein ibn-ali — 1856–1931, 1st king of Hejaz 1916–24.
  • image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
  • inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • ineluctability — The state or condition of being ineluctable.
  • infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
  • innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • insuppressible — incapable of being suppressed; irrepressible: his insuppressible humor.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
  • leibniz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
  • libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
  • licence number — an identifying number on a licence or licence plate that identifies it with the owner
  • license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
  • liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • millennium bug — Year 2000
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
  • neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • nibelungenlied — a Middle High German epic of c1200, related to the Scandinavian Volsunga Saga and telling of the life of Siegfried, his marriage to Kriemhild, his wooing of Brunhild on behalf of Gunther, his murder by Hagen, and the revenge of Kriemhild.
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