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14-letter words containing b, c, e, l

  • irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
  • irreproachable — free from blame; not able to be reproached or censured.
  • irreproachably — In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.
  • irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
  • irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
  • irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
  • irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
  • jacob's ladder — any of various plants belonging to the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, especially P. caeruleum (or P. van-bruntiae), having blue, cup-shaped flowers and paired leaflets in a ladderlike arrangement.
  • jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
  • john constable — John, 1776–1837, English painter.
  • khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
  • labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
  • lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
  • lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
  • lambeth palace — the official residence of the archbishop of Canterbury, in Lambeth.
  • landing beacon — a radio transmitter that emits a landing beam
  • lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
  • leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
  • leave feedback — If a guest leaves feedback, they tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • lethal chamber — a room or enclosure where animals may be killed by exposure to a poison gas.
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • liberty bodice — a sleeveless vest-like undergarment made from thick cotton and covering the upper part of the body, formerly worn esp by young children
  • library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
  • licence number — an identifying number on a licence or licence plate that identifies it with the owner
  • license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
  • local variable — (programming)   A variable with lexical scope, i.e. one which only exists in some particular part of the source code, typically within a block or a function or procedure body. This contrasts with a global variable, which is defined throughout the whole program. Code is easier to understand and modify when the scope of variables is as small as possible because it is easier to see how the variable is set and used. Code containing global variables is harder to modify because its behaviour may depend on and affect other sections of code that refer to that variable.
  • logic variable — (programming)   A variable in a logic programming language which is initially undefined ("unbound") but may get bound to a value or another logic variable during unification of the containing clause with the current goal. The value to which it is bound may contain other variables which may themselves be bound or unbound. For example, when unifying the clause sad(X) :- computer(X, ibmpc). with the goal sad(billgates). the variable X will become bound to the atom "billgates" yielding the new subgoal "computer(billgates, ibmpc)".
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • marble orchard — cemetery.
  • mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
  • merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
  • metabolic heat — animal heat.
  • metabolic rate — the rate at which living organisms expend energy or convert energy into food
  • microcelebrity — a celebrity whose fame is relatively narrow in scope and likely to be transient
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
  • mobile canteen — a truck or lorry with kitchen facilities that can be used on site, such as on a film set, construction site, as a soup kitchen, etc
  • mobile command — the Canadian army and other land forces
  • molecular beam — a stream of molecules freed from a substance, usually a salt, by evaporation and then passed through a narrow slit for focusing, for investigating the properties of nuclei, atoms, and molecules.
  • multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
  • non-accessible — easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
  • non-actionable — furnishing ground for a lawsuit.
  • non-applicable — applying or capable of being applied; relevant; suitable; appropriate: an applicable rule; a solution that is applicable to the problem.
  • non-beneficial — conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
  • non-cancelable — not subject to cancellation: a noncancellable insurance policy.
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