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.