14-letter words containing s, t, u, b
- christmas bush — any of various trees or shrubs flowering at Christmas and used for decoration
- christmas club — a savings account in a bank in which regular deposits are made, usually throughout one year, as to provide funds for Christmas shopping.
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- combustibility — capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible.
- confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
- consubstantial — (esp of the three persons of the Trinity) regarded as identical in substance or essence though different in aspect
- countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
- crucible steel — a high-quality steel made by melting wrought iron, charcoal, and other additives in a crucible
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- 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.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
- 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.”.
- disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
- 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.
- 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.
- distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- double density — floppy disk
- 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.
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- 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
- equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
- 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.
- gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
- 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
- haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour