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

  • butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
  • 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
  • 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
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • 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
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • 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.
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
  • neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
  • non-absolutist — the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.
  • non-adjustable — capable of being adjusted: adjustable seat belts.
  • non-combustion — the act or process of burning.
  • non-subjective — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
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