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14-letter words containing s, e, t, l

  • barrel shifter — (hardware)   A hardware device that can shift or rotate a data word by any number of bits in a single operation. It is implemented like a multiplexor, each output can be connected to any input depending on the shift distance.
  • barrel-chested — A barrel-chested man has a large, rounded chest.
  • basket-of-gold — a yellow-flowered perennial plant (Alyssum saxatile, now more properly Aurinia saxatilis) of the crucifer family, often used in rock gardens
  • bastard ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard turtle — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-turtle — ridley (def 1).
  • battle cruiser — A battle cruiser is a large fast warship that is lighter than a battleship and moves more easily.
  • battle of wits — If you refer to a situation as a battle of wits, you mean that it involves people with opposing aims who compete with each other using their intelligence, rather than force.
  • battle station — the place or position that one is assigned to for battle or in an emergency.
  • battle-scarred — adversely affected from the experience of battle, or some other traumatic experience
  • batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
  • beaufort scale — an international scale of wind velocities ranging for practical purposes from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane force). In the US an extension of the scale, from 13 to 17 for winds over 64 knots, is used
  • beclomethasone — a potent synthetic corticosteroid, C 28 H 37 ClO 7 , prepared as an inhalant in the treatment of bronchial asthma.
  • belaya tserkov — city in WC Ukraine: pop. 204,000
  • belles-lettres — literary works, esp essays and poetry, valued for their aesthetic rather than their informative or moral content
  • belletristical — relating to the fine arts
  • belvoir castle — a castle in Leicestershire, near Grantham (in Lincolnshire): seat of the Dukes of Rutland; rebuilt by James Wyatt in 1816
  • bend the rules — to ignore rules or change them to suit one's own convenience
  • bessemer steel — steel made by the Bessemer process.
  • betake oneself — to go; move
  • bethlehem sage — a plant, Pulmonaria saccharata, of the borage family, native to Europe, having mottled, white leaves and white or reddish-purple flowers in clusters.
  • betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
  • between whiles — now and then; at intervals
  • bidialectalism — the state of being bidialectal
  • billy no-mates — a person with no friends
  • bioelectronics — a branch of electronics that deals with electronic devices, implants, etc. used in medicine and biological research
  • bioluminescent — the production of light by living organisms.
  • bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
  • biscuit barrel — an airtight container of circular section equipped with a lid and used for storing biscuits
  • 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.
  • bits per pixel — (hardware, graphics)   (bpp) The number of bits of information stored per pixel of an image or displayed by a graphics adapter. The more bits there are, the more colours can be represented, but the more memory is required to store or display the image. A colour can be described by the intensities of red, green and blue (RGB) components. Allowing 8 bits (1 byte) per component (24 bits per pixel) gives 256 levels for each component and over 16 million different colours - more than the human eye can distinguish. Microsoft Windows [and others?] calls this truecolour. An image of 1024x768 with 24 bpp requires over 2 MB of memory. "High colour" uses 16 bpp (or 15 bpp), 5 bits for blue, 5 bits for red and 6 bits for green. This reduced colour precision gives a slight loss of image quality at a 1/3 saving on memory. Standard VGA uses a palette of 16 colours (4 bpp), each colour in the palette is 24 bit. Standard SVGA uses a palette of 256 colours (8 bpp). Some graphics hardware and software support 32-bit colour depths, including an 8-bit "alpha channel" for transparency effects.
  • black basaltes — basaltware.
  • black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
  • black redstart — a small, Passerine bird, Phoenicurus ochruros, found in Central and S Europe
  • blanket finish — a finish so close that a blanket would cover all the contestants involved
  • blanket stitch — a strong reinforcing stitch for the edges of blankets and other thick material
  • blanket-stitch — a basic sewing stitch in which widely spaced, interlocking loops, or purls, are formed, used for cutwork, as a decorative finish for edges, etc.
  • blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
  • bletheranskate — a blatherer
  • blind register — (in the United Kingdom) a list of those who are blind and are therefore entitled to financial and other benefits
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • blister beetle — any beetle of the family Meloidae, many of which produce a secretion that blisters the skin
  • blister copper — an impure form of copper having a blister-like surface due to the release of gas during cooling
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • blow off steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
  • blow one's top — to lose one's temper
  • blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
  • blue straggler — one of a small group of blue stars within a cluster that falls near the main sequence even though other stars of its color have evolved off the main sequence.
  • bolshoi ballet — a ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776.
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