14-letter words containing r, i, l, e, t
- breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
- bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
- brief of title — abstract of title
- 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.
- builder's knot — clove hitch
- building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
- bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
- burying beetle — a beetle of the genus Necrophorous, which buries the dead bodies of small animals by excavating beneath them, using the corpses as food for themselves and their larvae: family Silphidae
- butter brickle — an ice-cream flavor, usually vanilla or butterscotch, containing crunchy bits of butterscotch candy.
- butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
- 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.
- 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.
- capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
- 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
- cardinal tetra — a small, brilliantly colored red and blue characin fish, Paracheirodon axelrodi, native to tropical forest streams in Brazil and Colombia: a popular aquarium fish.
- 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
- carpet slipper — Carpet slippers are soft, comfortable slippers.
- carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
- cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
- cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
- cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
- catachrestical — Catachrestic.
- cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
- cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
- celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
- center fielder — the player whose position is center field.
- central office — (communications) The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
- central region — a former local government region in central Scotland, formed in 1975 from Clackmannanshire, most of Stirlingshire, and parts of Perthshire, West Lothian, Fife, and Kinross-shire; in 1996 it was replaced by the council areas of Stirling, Clackmannanshire, and Falkirk
- centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
- centralization — the act or fact of centralizing; fact of being centralized.
- centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
- centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
- centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
- cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
- ceremonial tea — a Japanese green tea made from choice shade-grown leaves that are cured by a steaming, drying, and powdering process: used in chanoyu.
- certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
- certified milk — milk that is processed according to the sanitation standards in the area in which it is sold
- chalcotrichite — a fibrous variety of cuprite.
- charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
- chemical toner — toner (def 4).
- chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
- chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control