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14-letter words containing s, u, b, c

  • 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.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • 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.
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
  • equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
  • 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
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
  • 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.
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • hercules'-club — a prickly North American araliaceous shrub, Aralia spinosa, with medicinal bark and leaves
  • incense burner — container in which fragrance is burned
  • inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
  • inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
  • irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
  • irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
  • james buchanan — James, 1791–1868, 15th president of the U.S. 1857–61.
  • justiciability — (legal): The ability of a subject matter to be evaluated and resolved by a court.
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
  • non-combustion — the act or process of burning.
  • non-consumable — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
  • non-subjective — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
  • noncombustible — not flammable.
  • nonjusticiable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
  • nonobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • obstructionism — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • obstructionist — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
  • omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.
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