14-letter words containing s, a, b, i, n
- contestability — The property of being contestable or debatable.
- contrabandists — Plural form of contrabandist.
- corroborations — Plural form of corroboration.
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
- cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- daisy fleabane — a North American composite plant, Erigeron annuus, having hairy stems and numerous, small, daisylike flowers with narrow white rays.
- daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
- death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
- deliberateness — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- despicableness — The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
- diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
- diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
- disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disapprobation — disapproval; condemnation.
- 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.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- dispensability — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
- disposableness — Disposability.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- drainage basin — the area drained by a river and all its tributaries. Also called catchment area, drainage area. Compare watershed (def 2).
- 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
- embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
- establishments — Plural form of establishment.
- ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
- european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- expansion bend — a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level
- expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- 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.
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea