14-letter words containing t, e, b
- death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
- deathbed scene — a depiction in art or literature of events that take place at somebody's deathbed
- debenture bond — a corporate bond unsecured by any mortgage, dependent on the credit of the issuer.
- debt collector — a person that collects debts on behalf of creditors
- debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
- debt repayment — the action of repaying debts, or a single payment made to wards paying off a debt
- debugging tool — debugger
- debutante ball — a formal ball at which young women of upper-class background are presented to society
- decision table — a table within a computer program that specifies the actions to be taken when certain conditions arise
- defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- 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.
- delectableness — The state or quality of being delectable.
- deliberateness — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
- deliverability — capable of delivery.
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- demobilization — to disband (troops, an army, etc.).
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- describability — The quality of being describable.
- 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.
- digestibleness — The quality of being digestible.
- 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.
- discernability — The state of being discernable.
- discernibility — The state or quality of being discernible.
- discerpibility — the quality of being able to be discerped
- 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.
- disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- 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.
- dispersibility — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- disrespectable — not respectable.
- 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.
- distensibility — Capability of swelling or stretching.
- distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
- distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- 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