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14-letter words containing b, l, u, i

  • clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
  • colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
  • colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
  • columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
  • combustibility — capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible.
  • comma bacillus — a comma-shaped bacterium, Vibrio comma, that causes cholera in man: family Spirillaceae
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • conductibility — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
  • confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • consubstantial — (esp of the three persons of the Trinity) regarded as identical in substance or essence though different in aspect
  • contributional — the act of contributing.
  • contributorily — In a contributory manner.
  • corruptibility — that can or might be corrupted.
  • council bluffs — city in SW Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebr.: pop. 58,000
  • court-bouillon — a stock made from root vegetables, water, and wine or vinegar, used primarily for poaching fish
  • crucible steel — a high-quality steel made by melting wrought iron, charcoal, and other additives in a crucible
  • cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
  • cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • czech republic — a country in central Europe; formed part of Czechoslovakia until 1993; mostly wooded, with lowlands surrounding the River Morava, rising to the Bohemian plateau in the W and to highlands in the N; joined the EU in 2004. Language: Czech. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: koruna. Capital Prague. Pop: 10 162 921 (2013 est). Area: 78 864 sq km (30 450 sq miles)
  • debugging tool — debugger
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
  • discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disequilibrium — lack of equilibrium; imbalance.
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • double density — floppy disk
  • double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
  • double dribble — an infraction, resulting in loss of possession of the ball, occurring either when a player uses both hands simultaneously when dribbling or when a player interrupts a dribble by holding the ball momentarily in one or both hands.
  • double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
  • double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
  • double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
  • double-jointed — (of particular people or animals) having unusually flexible joints that can bend in unusual ways or to abnormally great extent.
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
  • dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
  • eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
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