14-letter words containing t, b, o, n
- countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
- countably many — countable
- counter-boulle — contre-partie.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
- countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
- county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
- court-bouillon — a stock made from root vegetables, water, and wine or vinegar, used primarily for poaching fish
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyclobarbitone — a barbiturate derivative drug used as a sedative and hypnotic
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- debenture bond — a corporate bond unsecured by any mortgage, dependent on the credit of the issuer.
- debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
- debugging tool — debugger
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
- dehabilitation — (sociology) The process of social estrangement and progressive loosening of social bonds between an individual and his family and society as a result of long-term residence in an institution.
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- demobilization — to disband (troops, an army, etc.).
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
- dinitrobenzene — any of three isomeric benzene derivatives having the formula C 6 H 4 NO 2 , made by nitration of benzene or nitrobenzene, the most important of which is the meta form: used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes.
- 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.”.
- disapprobation — disapproval; condemnation.
- disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- double coconut — a tall, stout, fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles Islands, having nuts that are the largest seeds of any plant, often weighing 50 pounds (22.6 kg): populations are declining.
- double density — floppy disk
- double entente — a double meaning; ambiguity.
- double-jointed — (of particular people or animals) having unusually flexible joints that can bend in unusual ways or to abnormally great extent.
- double-tongued — deceitful; hypocritical.
- down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- 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
- effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
- energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- enterobacteria — (microbiology) Plural form of enterobacterium.
- ethnobotanical — Of or pertaining to ethnobotany.
- ethnobotanists — Plural form of ethnobotanist.
- exhibitionists — Plural form of exhibitionist.
- expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- 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