14-letter words containing a, n, t, l, i, o
- auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
- axial skeleton — the bones that together comprise the skull and the vertebral column
- ball indicator — a flight instrument that measures the angle of roll about an aircraft's horizontal axis, thereby indicating whether or not the aircraft is skidding or slipping.
- ballot rigging — Ballot rigging is the act of illegally changing the result of an election by producing a false record of the number of votes.
- balto-slavonic — a hypothetical subfamily of Indo-European languages consisting of Baltic and Slavonic. It is now generally believed that similarities between them result from geographical proximity rather than any special relationship
- baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
- battle station — the place or position that one is assigned to for battle or in an emergency.
- billy no-mates — a person with no friends
- bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
- bipolarisation — the act of bipolarising
- bipolarization — the action of rendering something bipolar
- blaxploitation — a genre of films featuring Black stereotypes
- block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
- block mountain — a mountain produced by faulting and the uplifting of large blocks of rock
- blood relation — A blood relation or blood relative is someone who is related to you by birth rather than by marriage.
- blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
- blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
- bony labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
- bottle gentian — closed gentian.
- bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
- bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
- brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
- browntail moth — kind of moth
- bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
- by acclamation — by an overwhelming majority without a ballot
- by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
- cache conflict — (storage) A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
- call into play — to begin to operate
- calorification — the production of heat
- capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
- capitalisation — The act or process of capitalising.
- capitalization — the act of capitalizing
- caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
- caramelization — the conversion of sugar into caramel, caused by heating
- cardinal point — The cardinal points are the four main points of the compass, north, south, east, and west.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
- cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
- celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
- central office — (communications) The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
- central region — a former local government region in central Scotland, formed in 1975 from Clackmannanshire, most of Stirlingshire, and parts of Perthshire, West Lothian, Fife, and Kinross-shire; in 1996 it was replaced by the council areas of Stirling, Clackmannanshire, and Falkirk
- centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
- centralization — the act or fact of centralizing; fact of being centralized.
- centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
- ceremonial tea — a Japanese green tea made from choice shade-grown leaves that are cured by a steaming, drying, and powdering process: used in chanoyu.
- channelization — the action or process of channelizing
- chaptalization — a method of increasing the alcohol in a wine by adding sugar to the must before or during fermentation.
- chemical toner — toner (def 4).