14-letter words containing e, u, l, o
- autopilot code — (jargon, humour) Code that was written by a programmer on "auto-pilot" who wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
- autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
- autotetraploid — an individual or strain whose chromosome complement consists of four copies of a single genome due to doubling of an ancestral chromosome complement
- auxiliary note — a nonharmonic note occurring between two harmonic notes
- auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
- b power supply — Electronics. B supply.
- back catalogue — A musical performer's back catalogue is the music which they recorded and released in the past rather than their latest recordings.
- ball of muscle — a very strong, fit, or forceful person
- balsam of peru — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
- balsaminaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Balsaminaceae, a family of flowering plants, including balsam and touch-me-not, that have irregular flowers and explosive capsules
- 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.
- 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 parlour — A beauty parlour is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example to have their hair, nails or make-up done.
- believe you me — You can use believe you me to emphasize that what you are saying is true.
- benzosulfimide — saccharin.
- bermuda collar — a narrow, pointed collar on a woman's dress or blouse
- bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
- bioequivalence — the equality of strength, bioavailability, and dosage of various drug products
- bioluminescent — the production of light by living organisms.
- bleat on about — If you say that someone is bleating on about something, you mean that they are talking about it a great deal in a way which makes them sound weak and irritating.
- bloc québécois — (in Canada) a political party that advocates autonomy for Quebec
- 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
- blue dandelion — chicory (def 1).
- blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
- blue-eyed soul — soul music written and performed by White singers in a style derived from the blues
- bluebottle fly — any of several iridescent blue blow flies, especially those of the genus Calliphora, some of which are parasitic on domestic animals.
- blurred vision — a condition which makes it impossible to see clearly
- body beautiful — a beautiful body
- borrow trouble — to worry about anything needlessly or before one has sufficient cause
- boston lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce
- bottle turning — the turning of the legs of chairs, tables, etc., in manufacturing to give certain sections an ornamental, bottlelike form.
- boulder canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, above Boulder Dam.
- bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
- 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
- boutique hotel — A boutique hotel is a small, high-quality and usually attractive hotel.
- bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
- bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
- brown bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
- 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.
- buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
- buffalo beetle — the hairy larva of a carpet beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariae), harmful to furs and woolens
- 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."
- builder's knot — clove hitch
- bull's-eye rot — a disease of apples and pears, characterized by sunken, eyelike spots on the fruit and twig cankers, caused by any of several fungi, especially of the genus Neofabraea.
- 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.
- bullion fringe — a thick gold or silver wire or fringed cord used as a trimming, as on military uniforms