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14-letter words containing l, o, b, i, t

  • bioclimatology — the study of the effects of climatic conditions on living organisms
  • bioelectricity — electricity generated by a living organism
  • bioelectronics — a branch of electronics that deals with electronic devices, implants, etc. used in medicine and biological research
  • biolinguistics — the study of language functions as they relate to or derive from the biological characteristics of an organism.
  • bioluminescent — the production of light by living organisms.
  • biometeorology — the study of the effect of weather conditions on living organisms
  • bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
  • biostatistical — relating to biostatistics
  • bipolarisation — the act of bipolarising
  • bipolarization — the action of rendering something bipolar
  • birthing stool — a stool constructed to allow a woman in labour to give birth in a sitting position
  • bite one's lip — If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances.
  • blaxploitation — a genre of films featuring Black stereotypes
  • blister copper — an impure form of copper having a blister-like surface due to the release of gas during cooling
  • block capitals — Block capitals are simple capital letters that are not decorated in any way.
  • block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
  • block mountain — a mountain produced by faulting and the uplifting of large blocks of rock
  • block printing — printing from hand engraved or carved blocks of wood or linoleum
  • blood boosting — a procedure in which an athlete is injected with erythropoietin, his or her own blood, or the blood of a family member prior to competition, purportedly increasing the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity as a result of the addition of red blood cells.
  • blood relation — A blood relation or blood relative is someone who is related to you by birth rather than by marriage.
  • blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
  • blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
  • body beautiful — a beautiful body
  • bolshoi ballet — a ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776.
  • bony labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
  • 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
  • bottle gentian — closed gentian.
  • bottle turning — the turning of the legs of chairs, tables, etc., in manufacturing to give certain sections an ornamental, bottlelike form.
  • bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
  • bottomless pit — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
  • boutique hotel — A boutique hotel is a small, high-quality and usually attractive hotel.
  • boy-meets-girl — conventionally or trivially romantic
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • brief of title — abstract of title
  • bring to light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • british dollar — any of several coins formerly issued by the British Empire for use in certain territories, as the Straits dollar or the Hong Kong dollar.
  • british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
  • broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
  • brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
  • browntail moth — kind of moth
  • 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
  • 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 acclamation — by an overwhelming majority without a ballot
  • by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
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