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14-letter words containing o, s, b, e

  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • horseshoe back — a bow back having a slight outward splay at its bottom.
  • horseshoe crab — a large marine arthropod, Limulus polyphemus, of shallow coastal waters of eastern North America and eastern Asia, having both compound and simple eyes, book gills, a stiff tail, and a brown carapace curved like a horseshoe: a living fossil related to the woodlouse.
  • hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
  • hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
  • 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.
  • inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
  • incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
  • inconscionable — Obsolete form of unconscionable.
  • inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
  • inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indiscoverable — not discoverable.
  • inexorableness — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • 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.
  • inviolableness — The quality or state of being inviolable.
  • irresponsibles — Plural form of irresponsible.
  • it's no bother — If you say 'it's no bother' after offering to do something for someone, you are emphasizing that you really want to do it and that it will take very little effort.
  • jacob's ladder — any of various plants belonging to the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, especially P. caeruleum (or P. van-bruntiae), having blue, cup-shaped flowers and paired leaflets in a ladderlike arrangement.
  • 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.
  • john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
  • keep sb posted — update regularly
  • keep the books — to keep written records of the finances of a business or other enterprise
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • knickerbockers — Also, knickerbockers [nik-er-bok-erz] /ˈnɪk ərˌbɒk ərz/ (Show IPA). loose-fitting short trousers gathered in at the knees.
  • knowledge base — (artificial intelligence)   A collection of knowledge expressed using some formal knowledge representation language. A knowledge base forms part of a knowledge-based system (KBS).
  • 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.
  • leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
  • 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.
  • libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • lumbersomeness — the state of being lumbersome
  • make one's bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • 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.
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
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