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14-letter words containing s, a, b, e, r

  • 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.
  • haberdasheries — Plural form of haberdashery.
  • 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.
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • hand's-breadth — handbreadth
  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • 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.
  • impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
  • inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
  • incense bearer — a person who carries the censer at religious ceremonies
  • inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
  • inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
  • indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indiscoverable — not discoverable.
  • inexorableness — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
  • inseparability — incapable of being separated, parted, or disjoined: inseparable companions.
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
  • invariableness — The state of being invariable; constancy of state, condition, or quality; immutability; unchangeableness.
  • irreplevisable — not replevisable; not capable of being replevied.
  • irrestrainable — That cannot be restrained.
  • irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
  • irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
  • irritabilities — Plural form of irritability.
  • 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.
  • james breastedJames Henry, 1865–1935, U.S. archaeologist and historian of ancient Egypt.
  • jersey barrier — a type of concrete barricade used especially as a highway divider to protect each side from traffic crossing over.
  • labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • lay sb to rest — If you say that someone who has died is laid to rest, you mean that they are buried.
  • lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
  • leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
  • les miserables — a novel (1862) by Victor Hugo.
  • liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
  • libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
  • liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
  • 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
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