14-letter words containing o, b, s, l, e, t
- celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
- charles talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- double density — floppy disk
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
- hemimetabolism — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- holometabolism — The complete metamorphosis of an insect.
- holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
- hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
- hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
- john constable — John, 1776–1837, English painter.
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- lay sb to rest — If you say that someone who has died is laid to rest, you mean that they are buried.
- leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
- let someone be — To let someone be means to leave them alone and not interfere in what they are doing.
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
- lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
- mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics) (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
- megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
- memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
- mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries