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14-letter words containing s, t, u, m, b

  • obstructionism — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • plumber's mate — a person who helps a plumber do his or her job
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • redisbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • somnambulation — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
  • stubble-jumper — a prairie grain farmer
  • stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • sub-government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • sub-postmaster — (in Britain) a man who runs a sub-post office
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
  • subject matter — the substance of a discussion, book, writing, etc., as distinguished from its form or style.
  • submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
  • subminiaturize — to design or manufacture (equipment, especially electronic equipment) of a greatly reduced scale.
  • substantialism — the doctrine that substantial noumena exist as a basis for phenomena.
  • sulphur-bottom — blue whale.
  • superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
  • superincumbent — lying or resting on something else.
  • sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
  • terbium metals — a series of closely related rare-earth elements, including terbium, gadolinium, europium, and, sometimes, dysprosium
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • timber cruiser — cruiser (def 6).
  • transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
  • trituberculism — the condition of being trituberculate
  • trombiculiasis — the condition of being infested with chiggers.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
  • undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
  • unmentionables — not mentionable; inappropriate, unfit, or improper for mention, as in polite conversation; unspeakable.
  • unsurmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
  • untransmutable — intransmutable
  • Ústí nad labem — a port in the Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: textile and chemical industries. Pop: 95 000 (2005 est)
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