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14-letter words containing b, e, l, o, r, u

  • double drummer — a type of cicada
  • double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • draw-out table — draw table.
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
  • journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
  • labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • lumbersomeness — the state of being lumbersome
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • 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.
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
  • non-recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
  • non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • non-returnable — not returnable.
  • nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
  • nonequilibrium — The condition of not being in equilibrium.
  • northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
  • nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
  • oblique stroke — (character)   "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
  • obstreperously — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
  • ordinal number — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • perturbational — relating to perturbation
  • polar outbreak — a vigorous thrust of cold, polar air across temperate regions.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • probable cause — reasonable ground for a belief, as, in a criminal case, that the accused was guilty of the crime, or, in a civil case, that grounds for the action existed: used especially as a defense to an action for malicious prosecution.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
  • puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
  • purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
  • queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
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