14-letter words containing s, u, b, d, o
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
- nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- non-adjustable — capable of being adjusted: adjustable seat belts.
- non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
- non-subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
- nuts and bolts — the essential or basic aspects: to learn the nuts and bolts of a new job.
- outer hebrides — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- overburdensome — excessively burdensome.
- oversubscribed — If something such as an event or a service is oversubscribed, too many people apply to attend the event or use the service.
- pas de bourree — a short running step.
- plumbous oxide — litharge.
- press cupboard — a cupboard of the 16th and 17th centuries having an overhanging top above a recessed cabinet, beneath which is a section of drawers or cabinets.
- pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
- random numbers — a number chosen by a random sampling, as from a table (random number table) or generated by a computer.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- redistribution — a distribution performed again or anew.
- ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
- roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
- scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
- shoulder blade — the scapula.
- shoulder board — one of a pair of narrow, stiff, cloth patches bearing an insignia of rank and worn on the shoulders by a commissioned officer.
- skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
- sodium bromide — a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble solid, NaBr, used chiefly in photography as a developer, and in medicine as a sedative.
- sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
- sounding-block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
- statutory body — a body set up by the government to consider evidence and make judgements in some field of activity
- subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
- subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- suicide bomber — A suicide bomber is a terrorist who carries out a bomb attack, knowing that he or she will be killed in the explosion.
- sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
- t distribution — Student's t distribution.
- to be slouched — to sit, lie or lean in an ungainly way, with one's limbs spread out
- troubleshooted — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- undemonstrable — not able to be made evident