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14-letter words containing d, o, l, e

  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • birdcage clock — lantern clock.
  • block calendar — a calendar in the form of a block of sheets each printed with the date of one day
  • blood disorder — a medical condition affecting the blood
  • blood platelet — any of the minute, disklike, colorless elements of the blood that are essential for normal clotting
  • blood pressure — the pressure exerted by the blood on the inner walls of the arteries, being relative to the elasticity and diameter of the vessels and the force of the heartbeat
  • blood relation — A blood relation or blood relative is someone who is related to you by birth rather than by marriage.
  • blow one's lid — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
  • blue dandelion — chicory (def 1).
  • blue-eyed soul — soul music written and performed by White singers in a style derived from the blues
  • blurred vision — a condition which makes it impossible to see clearly
  • body beautiful — a beautiful body
  • book knowledge — theory
  • bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
  • boulder canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, above Boulder Dam.
  • bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
  • boundary layer — the layer of fluid closest to the surface of a solid past which the fluid flows: it has a lower rate of flow than the bulk of the fluid because of its adhesion to the solid
  • boundary value — boundary value analysis
  • bras d'or lake — an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in the center Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. 360 sq. mi. (930 sq. km).
  • brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • break the mold — If you say that someone breaks the mold, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • brown bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
  • builder's knot — clove hitch
  • bull-nosed bow — a bow having a bulbous forefoot.
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • by the vanload — in very large quantities
  • cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
  • calendar clock — a clock that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time, and sometimes indicates the phases of the moon and other periodical data.
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
  • camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
  • canada hemlock — a hemlock, Tsuga canadensis, of eastern North America, having horizontal branches that often droop to the ground: the state tree of Pennsylvania.
  • cape cod canal — a canal in SE Massachusetts, connecting Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • cellular radio — radio communication based on a network of transmitters each serving a small area known as a cell: used in personal communications systems in which the mobile receiver switches frequencies automatically as it passes from one cell to another
  • child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
  • chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
  • chloride paper — a relatively slow printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride: used mostly for contact prints.
  • chlorothiazide — a diuretic drug administered orally in the treatment of chronic heart and kidney disease and hypertension. Formula: C7H6ClN3O4S2
  • chlorpropamide — a sulfonylurea drug that reduces blood glucose and is administered orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Formula: C10H13ClN2O3S
  • chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
  • chocolate drop — a small disc of chocolate
  • choledochotomy — incision of the common bile duct.
  • choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
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