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14-letter words containing b, u, l

  • double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
  • double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
  • 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.
  • double-tongued — deceitful; hypocritical.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • draw-out table — draw table.
  • 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.
  • empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
  • exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
  • 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.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
  • fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
  • 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.
  • glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
  • global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
  • go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
  • golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
  • 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.
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
  • helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
  • hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hercules'-club — a prickly North American araliaceous shrub, Aralia spinosa, with medicinal bark and leaves
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
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