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14-letter words containing b, u, l, a, n

  • bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • 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.
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • can't help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • carbon neutral — A carbon neutral lifestyle, company, or activity does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
  • carbon-neutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
  • confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • constabulatory — (obsolete) A 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.
  • countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
  • countably many — countable
  • counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • debutante ball — a formal ball at which young women of upper-class background are presented to society
  • decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
  • double bassoon — a bassoon an octave lower in pitch than the ordinary bassoon: the largest and deepest-toned instrument of the oboe class; contrabassoon.
  • double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • 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 parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
  • general public — people in general
  • giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
  • go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
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