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

  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • colorblindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
  • decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
  • defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
  • demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
  • demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
  • deplorableness — The state or quality of being deplorable.
  • diabolicalness — The state or quality of being diabolical.
  • diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
  • 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.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
  • disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
  • disposableness — Disposability.
  • 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 bassoon — a bassoon an octave lower in pitch than the ordinary bassoon: the largest and deepest-toned instrument of the oboe class; contrabassoon.
  • double blossom — a disease of blackberries and dewberries, characterized by witches'-brooms and flower malformations, caused by a fungus, Cercosporella rubi.
  • double deckers — (jargon)   Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • double dresser — a dresser having two long drawers across its width for most of its height.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
  • 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.
  • get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • hobbledehoyish — of or like a hobbledehoy
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • in one's blood — If a quality or talent is in your blood, it is part of your nature, and other members of your family have it too.
  • inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
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