14-letter words containing t, a, b, e
- detestableness — The state or quality of being detestable.
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- developability — to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
- differentiable — capable of being differentiated.
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- disestablished — Simple past tense and past participle of disestablish.
- disestablishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disestablish.
- dispensability — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- draw-out table — draw table.
- draw-top table — a table that can be extended by sliding one or more additional leaves into place
- dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
- drinks cabinet — a cocktail cabinet
- 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
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
- embarrassments — Plural form of embarrassment.
- emblematically — In an emblematic manner.
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- enterobacteria — (microbiology) Plural form of enterobacterium.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- establishments — Plural form of establishment.
- ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
- ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
- exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
- exploitability — The state or condition of being exploitable.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
- extractability — (uncountable) The condition of being extractable.
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.