14-letter words containing t, a, b, l, e, u
- 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.
- charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
- chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
- circumambulate — to walk around (something)
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
- counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- cyclobutadiene — (organic compound) The unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon, C4H4 that is the smallest annulene.
- debutante ball — a formal ball at which young women of upper-class background are presented to society
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- draw-out table — draw table.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
- hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- holometabolous — undergoing complete metamorphosis.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- ineluctability — The state or condition of being ineluctable.
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
- innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
- insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
- irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
- lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
- leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say