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14-letter words containing b, o, t, l, e, d

  • 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
  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • lord baltimoreDavid, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
  • mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics)   (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
  • methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
  • mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
  • molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
  • non-adjustable — capable of being adjusted: adjustable seat belts.
  • non-deliberate — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • non-indictable — liable to being indicted, as a person.
  • nonestablished — without the official support of the government
  • nonpredictable — Not predictable.
  • northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
  • obedient plant — false dragonhead.
  • orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
  • particle board — any of various composition boards formed from small particles of wood, as flakes or shavings, tightly compressed and bonded together with a resin.
  • penalty double — business double.
  • periodic table — a table illustrating the periodic system, in which the chemical elements, formerly arranged in the order of their atomic weights and now according to their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups.
  • potbellied pig — a type of small, dark, domesticated pig with a lighter band running around its middle, native to Vietnam and sometimes kept as a pet.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
  • radiation belt — Van Allen belt.
  • redeliberation — careful consideration before decision.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • rob the cradle — a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
  • rolled tobacco — loose tobacco that is rolled into cigarettes
  • roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
  • slide trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
  • soldier beetle — a yellowish-red cantharid beetle, Rhagonycha fulva, having a somewhat elongated body
  • subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
  • sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
  • tabes dorsalis — syphilis of the spinal cord and its appendages, characterized by shooting pains and other sensory disturbances, and, in the later stages, by paralysis.
  • takeout double — informatory double.
  • theodore bilbo — Theodore Gilmore [gil-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈgɪl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1877–1947, U.S. Southern populist politician: senator 1935–47.
  • to be slouched — to sit, lie or lean in an ungainly way, with one's limbs spread out
  • to sweat blood — If you say that someone sweats blood trying to do something, you are emphasizing that they try very hard to do it.
  • toluidine blue — a dark green powder, C15H16N3SCl·ZnCl2, used in dyeing textiles, as a biological stain, as a coagulant in medicine, etc.
  • troubleshooted — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
  • vegetable-gold — Also called vegetable gold. a crocus, Crocus sativus, having showy purple flowers.
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