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14-letter words containing t, a, b, u, l

  • breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
  • buffalo beetle — the hairy larva of a carpet beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariae), harmful to furs and woolens
  • bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
  • building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
  • bulgur (wheat) — wheat that has been cooked, dried, and coarsely ground: used to make tabbouleh or, sometimes, pilaf or couscous
  • bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • butler's table — a small table, usually used as a coffee table, with a removable or fixed butler's tray for a top.
  • butyl aldehyde — butyraldehyde
  • 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.
  • can't help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • 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
  • christmas club — a savings account in a bank in which regular deposits are made, usually throughout one year, as to provide funds for Christmas shopping.
  • circumambulate — to walk around (something)
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
  • claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
  • consubstantial — (esp of the three persons of the Trinity) regarded as identical in substance or essence though different in aspect
  • contributional — the act of contributing.
  • countable noun — A countable noun is the same as a count noun.
  • countably many — countable
  • counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
  • cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • 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.
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • 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.
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