14-letter words containing b, u, t, i, e
- bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
- bridge circuit — any of several networks, such as a Wheatstone bridge, consisting of two branches across which a measuring device is connected. The resistance, capacitance, etc, of one component can be determined from the known values of the others when the voltage in each branch is balanced
- bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
- british museum — a museum in London, founded in 1753: contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) most of the British Library
- bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
- brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
- bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
- budget deficit — the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year
- budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
- bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
- builder's knot — clove hitch
- building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
- bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
- bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
- burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
- burying beetle — a beetle of the genus Necrophorous, which buries the dead bodies of small animals by excavating beneath them, using the corpses as food for themselves and their larvae: family Silphidae
- business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
- butter brickle — an ice-cream flavor, usually vanilla or butterscotch, containing crunchy bits of butterscotch candy.
- butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
- buyers' strike — an attempt on the part of consumers to lower price levels by boycotting retailers or certain types of goods.
- 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.
- capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
- cigarette butt — A cigarette butt or a cigarette end is the part of a cigarette that you throw away when you have finished smoking it.
- circumambulate — to walk around (something)
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
- 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.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- crucible steel — a high-quality steel made by melting wrought iron, charcoal, and other additives in a crucible
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- debugging tool — debugger
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.