14-letter words containing a, c, u, l
- bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
- breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
- bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
- bubble chamber — a device that enables the tracks of ionizing particles to be photographed as a row of bubbles in a superheated liquid. Immediately before the particles enter the chamber the pressure is reduced so that the ionized particles act as centres for small vapour bubbles
- bubble company — a company whose shares are highly valued and then plummet
- bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
- buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
- bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
- business class — Business class seating on an aeroplane costs less than first class but more than economy class.
- cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
- cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
- calculatedness — the state of being calculated
- call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
- call-up papers — a letter containing order to report for service
- calumniousness — Calumny.
- cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
- camillo cavour — Camillo Benso di [kah-meel-law ben-saw dee] /kɑˈmil lɔ ˈbɛn sɔ di/ (Show IPA), 1810–61, Italian statesman: leader in the unification of Italy.
- camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
- camp counselor — activities supervisor
- campanulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Campanulaceae, a family of temperate and subtropical plants, including the campanulas, having bell-shaped nodding flowers
- camphor laurel — an Australian name for the camphor tree, now occurring in the wild in parts of Australia
- campylotropous — (of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch
- can't help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- cancer cluster — the occurrence of a higher than expected number of cancer cases in a small, defined geographical area or population.
- candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
- canonical hour — one of the seven prayer times appointed for each day by canon law
- canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
- cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
- cape peninsula — (in South Africa) the peninsula and the part of the mainland on which Cape Town and most of its suburbs are located
- capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- capital outlay — a capital expenditure.
- caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
- carbon neutral — A carbon neutral lifestyle, company, or activity does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
- carbon-neutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
- carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
- carboxyl group — functional group in organic acids
- card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
- cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
- cardiovascular — of the heart and the blood vessels as a unified body system
- carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
- castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
- casual contact — the level of contact at which a person is not subject to contracting a communicable disease from another, especially nonsexual contact with a person infected with a venereal disease.
- cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
- caucasian lily — a tall lily plant, Lilium monadelphum, having large, fragrant, drooping golden-yellow flowers.
- cellular phone — A cellular phone or cellular telephone is a type of telephone which does not need wires to connect it to a telephone system.
- cellular radio — radio communication based on a network of transmitters each serving a small area known as a cell: used in personal communications systems in which the mobile receiver switches frequencies automatically as it passes from one cell to another
- central europe — an area between Eastern and Western Europe, generally accepted as comprising Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland
- central sulcus — a deep cleft in each hemisphere of the brain separating the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe
- centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion