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14-letter words containing o, l, e, n

  • blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
  • blow one's lid — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
  • blow one's top — to lose one's temper
  • 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)
  • blurred vision — a condition which makes it impossible to see clearly
  • bomb explosion — an explosion caused by the detonation of a bomb
  • bone porcelain — bone china.
  • book knowledge — theory
  • boolean search — (information science)   (Or "Boolean query") A query using the Boolean operators, AND, OR, and NOT, and parentheses to construct a complex condition from simpler criteria. A typical example is searching for combinatons of keywords on a web search engine. Examples: car or automobile "New York" and not "New York state" The term is sometimes stretched to include searches using other operators, e.g. "near". Not to be confused with binary search. See also: weighted search.
  • 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.
  • bornyl formate — a liquid, C 11 H 18 O 2 , having a piny odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of soaps and disinfectants.
  • boston lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce
  • 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.
  • bottomlessness — the quality of being very deep or bottomless
  • 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
  • bowel movement — the discharge of faeces; defecation
  • bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • builder's knot — clove hitch
  • 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
  • businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
  • butterfly knot — a particularly resistant knot which resembles a butterfly and can take loads on both ends, as well as on the loop
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • by the vanload — in very large quantities
  • 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.
  • cafe con leche — a drink made by mixing strong coffee with hot or scalded milk
  • calendar clock — a clock that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time, and sometimes indicates the phases of the moon and other periodical data.
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
  • caloric energy — energy measured in calories
  • calumniousness — Calumny.
  • camp counselor — activities supervisor
  • camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
  • campanulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Campanulaceae, a family of temperate and subtropical plants, including the campanulas, having bell-shaped nodding flowers
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