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

  • countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
  • croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
  • cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
  • cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
  • cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
  • decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
  • decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
  • diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • 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.
  • do one's block — to become angry
  • dodecasyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to 12 syllables.
  • dodecasyllable — a word or line of verse containing 12 syllables.
  • domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
  • give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
  • goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • indiscoverable — not discoverable.
  • introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
  • 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.
  • knickerbockers — Also, knickerbockers [nik-er-bok-erz] /ˈnɪk ərˌbɒk ərz/ (Show IPA). loose-fitting short trousers gathered in at the knees.
  • labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • microbreweries — Plural form of microbrewery.
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