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14-letter words containing b, u, o, e

  • 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.
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • bullion fringe — a thick gold or silver wire or fringed cord used as a trimming, as on military uniforms
  • burghley house — an Elizabethan mansion near Stamford in Lincolnshire: seat of the Cecil family; site of the annual Burghley Horse Trials
  • burn-in period — 1.   (testing)   A factory soak test intended to increase the chance that components that fail early due to infant mortality will fail before the system leaves the factory. 2.   (jargon)   When one is so intensely involved in a new project that one forgets basic needs such as food, drink and sleep. Excessive burn-in can lead to burn-out. See hack mode, larval stage.
  • burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
  • business hours — Business hours are the hours of the day in which a shop or a company is open for business.
  • businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
  • businessperson — Businesspeople are people who work in business.
  • bust one's ass — Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort: She was determined to make straight A's or bust.
  • butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
  • buteyko method — a breath control technique used to prevent hyperventilation and treat asthma without drugs
  • butterfly bomb — Military. a small, aerial, antipersonnel bomb with two folding wings that revolve, slowing the rate of descent and arming the fuze.
  • butterfly knot — a particularly resistant knot which resembles a butterfly and can take loads on both ends, as well as on the loop
  • butterfly roof — a roof having more than one slope, each descending inward from the eaves.
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • camera obscura — a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture
  • camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
  • carbon capture — the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change
  • 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.
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • coconut butter — a solid form of coconut oil
  • 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.
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
  • computerphobic — a computerphobe
  • conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • contact number — a person's telephone number
  • cottony jujube — an Indian evergreen shrub or small tree, Ziziphus mauritiana, of the buckthorn family, having leaves that are rusty-hairy on the underside and small, round, red, acid fruit.
  • countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
  • counter-boulle — contre-partie.
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
  • countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
  • croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
  • cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
  • cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
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