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14-letter words containing r, i, b, s, t

  • deliberateness — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • describability — The quality of being describable.
  • disapprobation — disapproval; condemnation.
  • disapprobatory — Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
  • disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
  • discernability — The state of being discernable.
  • discernibility — The state or quality of being discernible.
  • discerpibility — the quality of being able to be discerped
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • dispersibility — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
  • disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
  • disrespectable — not respectable.
  • dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
  • distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.
  • dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
  • drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
  • equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • expressibility — The quality of being expressible.
  • extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
  • fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • gastric bypass — a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine, performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • 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.
  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • hair's breadth — A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount.
  • hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • hit the bricks — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
  • hybrid testing — (testing)   A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
  • hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
  • hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
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