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

  • kiln run brick — any of various bricks of sufficient hardness to be exposed to the weather.
  • labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
  • labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
  • leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
  • leibniz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
  • licence number — an identifying number on a licence or licence plate that identifies it with the owner
  • license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
  • louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • lumbersomeness — the state of being lumbersome
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
  • manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
  • miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
  • molecular beam — a stream of molecules freed from a substance, usually a salt, by evaporation and then passed through a narrow slit for focusing, for investigating the properties of nuclei, atoms, and molecules.
  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
  • multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
  • multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
  • multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
  • natural bridge — a natural limestone bridge in western Virginia. 215 feet (66 meters) high; 90 feet (27 meters) span.
  • natural number — a positive integer or zero.
  • natural rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
  • neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
  • nitrile rubber — a synthetic rubber obtained by the copolymerization of acrylonitrile and butadiene, noted for its oil resistance.
  • non-ambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
  • non-recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
  • non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • non-returnable — not returnable.
  • nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
  • nonequilibrium — The condition of not being in equilibrium.
  • northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
  • nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
  • oblique stroke — (character)   "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
  • obstreperously — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
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