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14-letter words containing c, l, u, e

  • barbecue grill — a grill used in barbecuing
  • bascule bridge — a kind of drawbridge counterweighted so that it can be raised and lowered easily
  • bascule-bridge — a device operating like a balance or seesaw, especially an arrangement of a movable bridge (bascule bridge) by which the rising floor or section is counterbalanced by a weight.
  • battle cruiser — A battle cruiser is a large fast warship that is lighter than a battleship and moves more easily.
  • be out of luck — If you say that someone is out of luck, you mean that they cannot have something which they can normally have.
  • beach umbrella — a large umbrella used as a sunshade on the beach
  • beaufort scale — an international scale of wind velocities ranging for practical purposes from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane force). In the US an extension of the scale, from 13 to 17 for winds over 64 knots, is used
  • beauty culture — the skill or occupation of a beautician
  • béchamel sauce — a thick white sauce flavoured with onion and seasonings
  • bechamel-sauce — a white sauce, sometimes seasoned with onion and nutmeg.
  • becquerel rays — rays given off by radioactive substances
  • bengal catechu — catechu.
  • bermuda collar — a narrow, pointed collar on a woman's dress or blouse
  • bicuspid valve — mitral valve
  • bioequivalence — the equality of strength, bioavailability, and dosage of various drug products
  • bioluminescent — the production of light by living organisms.
  • bircher muesli — a type of muesli containing softened oats, dried fruit, and apple
  • biscuit barrel — an airtight container of circular section equipped with a lid and used for storing biscuits
  • black and blue — discolored, as by bruising; exhibiting ecchymosis: a black-and-blue mark on my knee.
  • black bullhead — a common freshwater catfish, Ictalurus melas, of North America, considered by some to be a food delicacy.
  • black mulberry — a small deciduous tree, Morus nigra, with small leaves, producing edible fruit
  • black selenium — an allotropic form of selenium occurring as a black, amorphous, water-insoluble, light-sensitive powder: used chiefly in photoelectric cells.
  • black squirrel — a fox squirrel or gray squirrel in that color phase in which the fur is black.
  • black-and-blue — (of the skin) discoloured, as from a bruise
  • bloc québécois — (in Canada) a political party that advocates autonomy for Quebec
  • boston lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce
  • boulder canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, above Boulder Dam.
  • brass knuckles — linked metal rings or a metal bar with holes for the fingers, worn for rough fighting
  • brazil current — a warm current in the Atlantic Ocean flowing SE along the E coast of Brazil.
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • bubble chamber — a device that enables the tracks of ionizing particles to be photographed as a row of bubbles in a superheated liquid. Immediately before the particles enter the chamber the pressure is reduced so that the ionized particles act as centres for small vapour bubbles
  • bubble company — a company whose shares are highly valued and then plummet
  • bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
  • buchner funnel — a laboratory filter funnel used under reduced pressure. It consists of a shallow porcelain cylinder with a flat perforated base
  • buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
  • 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."
  • bull stretcher — Also called bullnose stretcher. a brick having one of the edges along its length rounded for laying as a stretcher in a sill or the like.
  • business class — Business class seating on an aeroplane costs less than first class but more than economy class.
  • business cycle — the recurrent fluctuation between boom and depression in the economic activity of a capitalist country
  • business lunch — a lunch at which business is discussed or transacted
  • butter brickle — an ice-cream flavor, usually vanilla or butterscotch, containing crunchy bits of butterscotch candy.
  • c power supply — a battery or other source of power for supplying a constant voltage bias to a control electrode of a vacuum tube.
  • 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.
  • cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
  • calculatedness — the state of being calculated
  • call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
  • call-up papers — a letter containing order to report for service
  • calumniousness — Calumny.
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