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

  • taxable amount — the portion of your income or profits that is subject to tax
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • terbium metals — a series of closely related rare-earth elements, including terbium, gadolinium, europium, and, sometimes, dysprosium
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • the honourable — a title of respect placed before a name: employed before the names of various officials in the English-speaking world, as a courtesy title in Britain for the children of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls, and in Parliament by one member speaking of another
  • the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
  • the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
  • thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
  • third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • tintinnabulary — of bells or the ringing of bells
  • tintinnabulate — to ring
  • to be slouched — to sit, lie or lean in an ungainly way, with one's limbs spread out
  • to go belly-up — (of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
  • toilet cubicle — a very small enclosed area containing a toilet
  • toluidine blue — a dark green powder, C15H16N3SCl·ZnCl2, used in dyeing textiles, as a biological stain, as a coagulant in medicine, etc.
  • touch football — an informal variety of football in which the touching, usually with both hands, of a ball-carrier by a member of the opposing team results in a down.
  • treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
  • trituberculate — (of a structure such as a tooth or bone) with three tubercles
  • trituberculism — the condition of being trituberculate
  • trombiculiasis — the condition of being infested with chiggers.
  • troubleshooted — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • troubleshooter — a person with special skill in resolving disputes, impasses, etc., as in business, national, or international affairs: a diplomatic troubleshooter in the Middle East.
  • tubal ligation — a method of permanent sterilization for women, involving the surgical sealing of the fallopian tubes to prevent the ovum from passing from the ovary to the uterus.
  • tubuai islands — a chain of small islands extending about 1400 km (850 miles) in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia; discovered by Captain Cook in 1777; annexed by France in 1880. Pop: 1979 (2002). Area: 173 sq km (67 sq miles)
  • tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • turbo-electric — noting, pertaining to, or utilizing machinery that includes a generator driven by a turbine: turbo-electric engine; turbo-electric propulsion.
  • turbulent flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid varies irregularly.
  • umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
  • un-get-at-able — very difficult to get hold of or get close to
  • unalterability — the state or quality of not being alterable or not being able to be changed
  • unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
  • unattributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • unavailability — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
  • uncollectables — things that are not collectable
  • uncontrollable — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
  • uncontrollably — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
  • uncriticizable — to censure or find fault with.
  • uncultivatable — unsuitable for cultivation
  • undecidability — the quality of being undecidable
  • undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
  • understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • undeterminable — capable of being determined.
  • unflappability — not easily upset or confused, especially in a crisis; imperturbable.
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