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14-letter words containing t, u, b, i

  • distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.
  • domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
  • double density — floppy disk
  • double-jointed — (of particular people or animals) having unusually flexible joints that can bend in unusual ways or to abnormally great extent.
  • 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.
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
  • exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • 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
  • 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
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • 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.
  • giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
  • 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.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • have bought it — to be killed
  • 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
  • hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
  • immunoblotting — The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
  • imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
  • implausibility — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • indigo bunting — a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.
  • indubitability — that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
  • ineluctability — The state or condition of being ineluctable.
  • infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
  • injury benefit — money paid to someone who has sustained an injury
  • innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
  • inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • 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.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
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