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

  • bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
  • bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
  • boy-meets-girl — conventionally or trivially romantic
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • bras d'or lake — an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in the center Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. 360 sq. mi. (930 sq. km).
  • brass knuckles — linked metal rings or a metal bar with holes for the fingers, worn for rough fighting
  • brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
  • breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
  • breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • brewster's law — the law that light will receive maximum polarization from a reflecting surface when it is incident to the surface at an angle (angle of polarization or polarizing angle) having a tangent equal to the index of refraction of the surface.
  • british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
  • budget surplus — the amount by which government income from taxation, customs duties, etc, exceeds expenditure in any one fiscal year
  • builder's knot — clove hitch
  • bull stretcher — Also called bullnose stretcher. a brick having one of the edges along its length rounded for laying as a stretcher in a sill or the like.
  • bull's-eye rot — a disease of apples and pears, characterized by sunken, eyelike spots on the fruit and twig cankers, caused by any of several fungi, especially of the genus Neofabraea.
  • bull-nosed bow — a bow having a bulbous forefoot.
  • burghley house — an Elizabethan mansion near Stamford in Lincolnshire: seat of the Cecil family; site of the annual Burghley Horse Trials
  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • business angel — A business angel is a person who gives financial support to a commercial venture and receives a share of any profits from it, but who does not expect to be involved in its management.
  • business class — Business class seating on an aeroplane costs less than first class but more than economy class.
  • business cycle — the recurrent fluctuation between boom and depression in the economic activity of a capitalist country
  • business lunch — a lunch at which business is discussed or transacted
  • business reply — a form of mail, as a postcard, letter, or envelope, usually sent as an enclosure, and which can be mailed back by respondents without their having to pay postage.
  • businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
  • butler's table — a small table, usually used as a coffee table, with a removable or fixed butler's tray for a top.
  • butterfly bush — buddleia
  • butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
  • buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • calamine brass — an alloy of zinc carbonate and copper, formerly used to imitate gold.
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • castelo branco — Humberto de Alencar [oon-ber-too di ah-len-kahr] /ũˈbɛr tʊ dɪ ɑ lɛ̃ˈkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1900–67, Brazilian general and statesman: president 1964–67.
  • celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • cerebral palsy — Cerebral palsy is a condition caused by damage to a baby's brain before or during its birth, which makes its limbs and muscles permanently weak.
  • changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • charles albert — 1798–1849, king of Sardinia-Piedmont (1831–49) during the Risorgimento: abdicated after the failure of his revolt against Austria
  • charles talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
  • chemical abuse — the habitual use of a mood-altering drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
  • cherry blossom — the blossom of any of various spring-blooming cherries, prized for their beauty
  • cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
  • church visible — the entire body of Christian believers on earth.
  • clabber cheese — cottage cheese.
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
  • cobbler's pegs — a common Australian weed, Bidens pilosa, with spiky peglike awns
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
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