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13-letter words containing b, e, l, o, t

  • cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
  • counter table — a medieval English table having a top divided into appropriately marked spaces for various denominations of money.
  • counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
  • country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
  • covalent bond — a type of chemical bond involving the sharing of electrons between atoms in a molecule, esp the sharing of a pair of electrons by two adjacent atoms
  • coventry bell — a perennial garden plant, Campanula trachelium, of Eurasia, having coarsely toothed leaves and bluish-purple flowers.
  • cremorne bolt — (on a French window or the like) a pair of rods, moved by a knob mechanism, sliding into sockets in the head and sill of the opening to provide a secure fastening.
  • crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
  • decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
  • decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
  • defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
  • deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
  • deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • deployability — Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
  • desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
  • desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
  • diabetologist — a person who studies diabetes
  • direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
  • disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
  • disobligement — disobligation
  • double batten — two wooden battens screwed together for holding the edge of a drop between them.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
  • double-bottom — tandem trailer (def 1).
  • double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • double-dotted — (of a note) increased to one and three quarters of its original time value by the addition of two dots
  • double-tailed — (of a lion) represented with two tails joined together next to the body.
  • double-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • doubtlessness — The property of being doubtless.
  • drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed
  • electron tube — (electronics)   (Or tube, vacuum tube, UK: valve, electron valve, thermionic valve, firebottle, glassfet) An electronic component consisting of a space exhausted of gas to such an extent that electrons may move about freely, and two or more electrodes with external connections. Nearly all tubes are of the thermionic type where one electrode, called the cathode, is heated, and electrons are emitted from its surface with a small energy (typically a Volt or less). A second electrode, called the anode (plate) will attract the electrons when it is positive with respect to the cathode, allowing current in one direction but not the other. In types which are used for amplification of signals, additional electrodes, called grids, beam-forming electrodes, focussing electrodes and so on according to their purpose, are introduced between cathode and plate and modify the flow of electrons by electrostatic attraction or (usually) repulsion. A voltage change on a grid can control a substantially greater change in that between cathode and anode. Unlike semiconductors, except perhaps for FETs, the movement of electrons is simply a function of electrostatic field within the active region of the tube, and as a consequence of the very low mass of the electron, the currents can be changed quickly. Moreover, there is no limit to the current density in the space, and the electrodes which do dissapate power are usually metal and can be cooled with forced air, water, or other refrigerants. Today these features cause tubes to be the active device of choice when the signals to be amplified are a power levels of more than about 500 watts. The first electronic digital computers used hundreds of vacuum tubes as their active components which, given the reliability of these devices, meant the computers needed frequent repairs to keep them operating. The chief causes of unreliability are the heater used to heat the cathode and the connector into which the tube was plugged. Vacuum tube manufacturers in the US are nearly a thing of the past, with the exception of the special purpose types used in broadcast and image sensing and displays. Eimac, GE, RCA, and the like would probably refer to specific types such as "Beam Power Tetrode" and the like, and rarely use the generic terms. The cathode ray tube is a special purpose type based on these principles which is used for the visual display in television and computers. X-ray tubes are diodes (two element tubes) used at high voltage; a tungsten anode emits the energetic photons when the energetic electrons hit it. Magnetrons use magnetic fields to constrain the electrons; they provide very simple, high power, ultra-high frequency signals for radar, microwave ovens, and the like. Klystrons amplify signals at high power and microwave frequencies.
  • employability — (uncountable) The state or quality of being employable.
  • equilibration — The formation, or maintenance, of an equilibrium.
  • equilibratory — Relating to the physical sense of balance, or equilibrium.
  • erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
  • exceptionable — Open to objection; causing disapproval or offense.
  • exportability — The property of being exportable.
  • farm-to-table — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
  • flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
  • float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • flower beetle — any of numerous, usually brightly colored beetles, as of the families Malachiidae and Dasytidae, that live on flowers and are predaceous on other insects.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
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