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15-letter words containing b, y, l

  • bodily function — A person's bodily functions are the normal physical processes that regularly occur in their body, particularly the ability to urinate and defecate.
  • boom-bust cycle — A boom-bust cycle is a series of events in which a rapid increase in business activity in the economy is followed by a rapid decrease in business activity, and this process is repeated again and again.
  • box huckleberry — a nearly prostrate evergreen huckleberry shrub, Gaylussacia brachycera, of central to eastern North America, having short clusters of white or pink flowers and blue fruit.
  • braille display — (hardware)   (Or "refreshable braille display", "refreshable display") An electromechanical device that renders braille with tiny, independently controlled pins used to represent the state of dots in braille cells. Each pin, in its "on" state, raises above the top of its hole in the screen; in its "off" state, it drops below the top of its hole. Older systems used tiny solenoids to control the state of the pins; modern systems are piezoelectric. Typical dimensions of a braille display are 1 line of 40 cells, each cell of two-by-eight dots.
  • breath analyzer — an instrument consisting of a small bag or tube filled with chemically treated crystals, into which a sample of a motorist's breath is taken as a test for intoxication.
  • breech delivery — birth of a baby with the feet or buttocks appearing first
  • british library — the British national library, formed in 1973 from the British Museum library and other national collections: housed mainly in the British Museum until 1997 when a purpose-built library in St Pancras, London, was completed
  • brooklyn bridge — a suspension bridge over the East River, in New York City, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn: built 1867–84. 5989 feet (1825 meters) long.
  • brooklyn center — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • buryat republic — a constituent republic of SE central Russia, on Lake Baikal: mountainous, with forests covering over half the total area. Capital: Ulan-Ude. Pop: 981 000 (2002). Area: 351 300 sq km (135 608 sq miles)
  • butler's pantry — a pantry in a large house where crockery, glassware, cutlery, etc is kept
  • butterfly chair — a lightweight chair consisting of a piece of canvas, leather, etc. slung from a framework of metal bars
  • butterfly table — a small occasional table, usually having a round or oval top, with drop leaves supported by swinging brackets pivoted to the stretchers and to the underside of the top.
  • butterfly valve — a disc that acts as a valve by turning about a diameter, esp one used as the throttle valve in a carburettor
  • butterfly wedge — a wooden fastening in the form of a double dovetail for joining two boards at their edges.
  • buys-ballot law — the law stating that if one stands with one's back to the wind, in the Northern Hemisphere the atmospheric pressure will be lower on one's left and in the Southern Hemisphere it will be lower on one's right: descriptive of the relationship of horizontal winds to atmospheric pressure.
  • by a long chalk — You can use by a long chalk to add emphasis to something you are saying.
  • by all accounts — according to everyone
  • cabbalistically — Alternative spelling of cabalistically.
  • calcined baryta — baryta (def 1).
  • calcined-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • calydonian boar — a savage boar sent by Artemis to destroy Calydon, a city in Aetolia, because its king had neglected to sacrifice to her. It was killed by Meleager, the king's son
  • camelot library — (library)  
  • canterbury bell — a campanulaceous biennial European plant, Campanula medium, widely cultivated for its blue, violet, or white flowers
  • canterbury lamb — New Zealand lamb exported chilled or frozen to the United Kingdom
  • carboxylic acid — any of a class of organic acids containing the carboxyl group
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • city of bristol — a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop: 420 556 (2001)
  • collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
  • combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
  • comfortably off — If someone is comfortably off, they have enough money to be able to live without financial problems.
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • compressibility — the ability to be compressed
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • contemptibility — The quality of being contemptible.
  • contractability — (of a body or substance) the ability to become smaller, narrower, shorter, etc
  • contractibility — contractability
  • controllability — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
  • corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
  • cranberry glass — reddish-pink transparent glassware first made in England and the U.S. in the mid-19th century.
  • credibility gap — A credibility gap is the difference between what a person says or promises and what they actually think or do.
  • cry blue murder — to make an outcry
  • cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
  • cyclobenzaprine — A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
  • cylinder barrel — the metal casting containing a cylinder of a reciprocating internal-combustion engine
  • cytotrophoblast — the thickened, inner part of the mammalian placenta nearest to the fetus, covering the chorion during early pregnancy
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decipherability — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
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