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14-letter words containing l, u, c, r

  • becquerel rays — rays given off by radioactive substances
  • bermuda collar — a narrow, pointed collar on a woman's dress or blouse
  • bircher muesli — a type of muesli containing softened oats, dried fruit, and apple
  • biscuit barrel — an airtight container of circular section equipped with a lid and used for storing biscuits
  • black mulberry — a small deciduous tree, Morus nigra, with small leaves, producing edible fruit
  • black squirrel — a fox squirrel or gray squirrel in that color phase in which the fur is black.
  • blood-curdling — A blood-curdling sound or story is very frightening and horrible.
  • boulder canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, above Boulder Dam.
  • brass knuckles — linked metal rings or a metal bar with holes for the fingers, worn for rough fighting
  • 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.
  • bubble chamber — a device that enables the tracks of ionizing particles to be photographed as a row of bubbles in a superheated liquid. Immediately before the particles enter the chamber the pressure is reduced so that the ionized particles act as centres for small vapour bubbles
  • buchner funnel — a laboratory filter funnel used under reduced pressure. It consists of a shallow porcelain cylinder with a flat perforated base
  • 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 power supply — a battery or other source of power for supplying a constant voltage bias to a control electrode of a vacuum tube.
  • 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.
  • call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
  • call-up papers — a letter containing order to report for service
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • camillo cavour — Camillo Benso di [kah-meel-law ben-saw dee] /kɑˈmil lɔ ˈbɛn sɔ di/ (Show IPA), 1810–61, Italian statesman: leader in the unification of Italy.
  • camp counselor — activities supervisor
  • camphor laurel — an Australian name for the camphor tree, now occurring in the wild in parts of Australia
  • campylotropous — (of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch
  • cancer cluster — the occurrence of a higher than expected number of cancer cases in a small, defined geographical area or population.
  • candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
  • canonical hour — one of the seven prayer times appointed for each day by canon law
  • canons regular — one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.
  • cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
  • capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
  • caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
  • 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.
  • carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
  • carboxyl group — functional group in organic acids
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
  • cardiovascular — of the heart and the blood vessels as a unified body system
  • 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
  • castrop-rauxel — an industrial city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 78 208 (2003 est)
  • cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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 sulcus — a deep cleft in each hemisphere of the brain separating the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • channel surfer — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • charles sumner — Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
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