14-letter words containing b, u, t, l
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- combustibility — capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible.
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- conductibility — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- 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.
- contributorily — In a contributory manner.
- corruptibility — that can or might be corrupted.
- countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
- countably many — countable
- counter-boulle — contre-partie.
- counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
- court-bouillon — a stock made from root vegetables, water, and wine or vinegar, used primarily for poaching fish
- crucible steel — a high-quality steel made by melting wrought iron, charcoal, and other additives in a crucible
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- debugging tool — debugger
- debutante ball — a formal ball at which young women of upper-class background are presented to society
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- 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.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- double coconut — a tall, stout, fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, of the Seychelles Islands, having nuts that are the largest seeds of any plant, often weighing 50 pounds (22.6 kg): populations are declining.
- double density — floppy disk
- double entente — a double meaning; ambiguity.
- double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
- 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.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.