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14-letter words containing l, p, n

  • blow one's top — to lose one's temper
  • bomb explosion — an explosion caused by the detonation of a bomb
  • bone porcelain — bone china.
  • bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
  • bouillon spoon — a spoon with a round bowl, smaller than a soup spoon.
  • breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
  • 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.
  • building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
  • bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
  • business reply — a form of mail, as a postcard, letter, or envelope, usually sent as an enclosure, and which can be mailed back by respondents without their having to pay postage.
  • businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • call into play — to begin to operate
  • camp counselor — activities supervisor
  • camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
  • campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
  • campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
  • campanulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Campanulaceae, a family of temperate and subtropical plants, including the campanulas, having bell-shaped nodding flowers
  • 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.
  • cape canaveral — a cape on the E coast of Florida: site of the US Air Force Missile Test Centre, from which the majority of US space missions have been launched
  • cape cod canal — a canal in SE Massachusetts, connecting Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • cape peninsula — (in South Africa) the peninsula and the part of the mainland on which Cape Town and most of its suburbs are located
  • capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
  • capitalisation — The act or process of capitalising.
  • capitalization — the act of capitalizing
  • captain's walk — widow's walk
  • carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
  • cardinal point — The cardinal points are the four main points of the compass, north, south, east, and west.
  • 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
  • carrying place — portage (def 3).
  • cellular phone — A cellular phone or cellular telephone is a type of telephone which does not need wires to connect it to a telephone system.
  • central europe — an area between Eastern and Western Europe, generally accepted as comprising Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland
  • central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
  • centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
  • cephalic index — the ratio of the greatest width of the human head to its greatest length, multiplied by 100
  • cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
  • chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
  • chaptalization — a method of increasing the alcohol in a wine by adding sugar to the must before or during fermentation.
  • chemical plant — a factory that produces or processes chemicals
  • chenille plant — an East Indian plant, Acalypha hispida, of the spurge family, having long, drooping, reddish-purple spikes of flowers.
  • chinese puzzle — an intricate puzzle, esp one consisting of boxes within boxes
  • chloroplatinic — of or derived from chloroplatinic acid.
  • chlorpromazine — a drug derived from phenothiazine, used as a tranquillizer and sedative, esp in psychotic disorders. Formula: C17H19ClN2S
  • chopping block — a thick wooden board used for chopping vegetables, meat etc on
  • chronicle play — a drama based on a historical subject
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