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14-letter words containing u, n, b, s

  • de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
  • diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
  • disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
  • 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
  • disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
  • double bassoon — a bassoon an octave lower in pitch than the ordinary bassoon: the largest and deepest-toned instrument of the oboe class; contrabassoon.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • 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
  • dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
  • european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
  • 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
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • 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.
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
  • funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • 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
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • husein ibn-ali — 1856–1931, 1st king of Hejaz 1916–24.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
  • in sb's honour — If something is arranged or happens in someone's honour, it is done specially to show appreciation of them.
  • incense burner — container in which fragrance is burned
  • inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
  • inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • 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.
  • insuppressible — incapable of being suppressed; irrepressible: his insuppressible humor.
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