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

  • blanket stitch — a strong reinforcing stitch for the edges of blankets and other thick material
  • blanket-stitch — a basic sewing stitch in which widely spaced, interlocking loops, or purls, are formed, used for cutwork, as a decorative finish for edges, etc.
  • bletchley park — the Buckinghamshire estate which was the centre of British code-breaking operations during World War II
  • blister copper — an impure form of copper having a blister-like surface due to the release of gas during cooling
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • booster cables — jumper cables
  • bornyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 12 H 20 O 2 , having a piny, camphorlike odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of perfume, and as a plasticizer.
  • boston lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce
  • bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • butter brickle — an ice-cream flavor, usually vanilla or butterscotch, containing crunchy bits of butterscotch candy.
  • c with classes — Short-lived predecessor to C++.
  • 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.
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • cache conflict — (storage)   A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
  • cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
  • calamata olive — a purplish-black, almond-shaped olive with a fruity flavor and meaty texture, often split and cured in brine and packed in vinegar.
  • calculatedness — the state of being calculated
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • calendar watch — a watch that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time.
  • call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
  • call the shots — The person who calls the shots is in a position to tell others what to do.
  • caloosahatchee — a river in S Florida, flowing W to the Gulf of Mexico near Fort Myers. 75 miles (121 km) long.
  • camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • can't help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • can't help sth — If you can't help the way you feel or behave, you cannot control it or stop it happening. You can also say that you can't help yourself.
  • canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
  • cancer cluster — the occurrence of a higher than expected number of cancer cases in a small, defined geographical area or population.
  • cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
  • canton flannel — cotton flannel
  • cap the climax — to be or do more than could be expected or believed
  • cape trafalgar — a cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cádiz: scene of the decisive naval battle (1805) in which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the British under Nelson, who was mortally wounded
  • capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
  • capital assets — any assets, tangible or intangible, that are held for long-term investment
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • capital letter — Capital letters are the same as capital s.
  • capital market — the financial institutions collectively that deal with medium-term and long-term capital and loans
  • caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
  • caramelization — the conversion of sugar into caramel, caused by heating
  • carbon neutral — A carbon neutral lifestyle, company, or activity does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
  • carbon-neutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
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