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14-letter words containing s, e, a, b, u, t

  • de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
  • domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • 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
  • exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • 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
  • irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
  • irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
  • kuznetsk basin — an industrial region in the S Russian Federation in Asia: coal fields.
  • lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
  • non-adjustable — capable of being adjusted: adjustable seat belts.
  • nonjusticiable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
  • nonsustainable — Not sustainable.
  • or thereabouts — You add or thereabouts after a number or date to indicate that it is approximate.
  • over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
  • plastic bullet — A plastic bullet is a large bullet made of plastic, which is intended to make people stop rioting, rather than to kill people.
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • plumber's mate — a person who helps a plumber do his or her job
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • public statute — public law (def 1).
  • puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
  • roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
  • russet burbank — a brown-skinned, oblong potato having a mealy flesh with high starch content.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
  • salt substrate — [MIT] Collective noun used to refer to potato chips, pretzels, saltines, or any other form of snack food designed primarily as a carrier for sodium chloride. From the technical term "chip substrate", used to refer to the silicon on the top of which the active parts of integrated circuits are deposited.
  • saut de basque — a jump in which the dancer turns in the air while keeping the foot of one leg drawn up to the knee of the other.
  • saxe-altenburg — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
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