14-letter words containing be
- childbed fever — puerperal fever.
- christmasberry — toyon.
- circumbendibus — a circumlocution
- clabber cheese — cottage cheese.
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
- coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
- complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
- congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- contact number — a person's telephone number
- cottony jujube — an Indian evergreen shrub or small tree, Ziziphus mauritiana, of the buckthorn family, having leaves that are rusty-hairy on the underside and small, round, red, acid fruit.
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- cranberry tree — highbush cranberry.
- crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
- cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
- cyberdemocracy — Democracy as facilitated by the Internet or cyberspace.
- cybernetically — using cybernetics
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
- cyberthrillers — Plural form of cyberthriller.
- 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.
- deliberateness — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
- 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.
- disbelievingly — In a disbelieving manner; in a manner that is difficult to believe.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- 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.
- divinylbenzene — a clear liquid, C 10 H 10 , easily polymerized, used in the manufacture of rubbers, drying oils, ion-exchange resins, and polyesters.
- do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
- double bedroom — a large bedroom
- down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- draw a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
- elected member — person voted in as a member
- embellishingly — in an embellishing manner
- embellishments — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
- energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
- exercise bench — (in a gymnasium) a low table, which may be inclined, used for various exercises
- expansion bend — a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level
- 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.
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
- 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.
- fiddler beetle — a black scarab beetle, Eupoecila australasiae, having markings resembling a violin.
- fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.