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14-letter words containing t, e, b

  • be in the loop — If someone is in the loop, they are part of a group of people who make decisions about important things, or they know about these decisions. If they are out of the loop, they do not make or know about important decisions.
  • be in the pink — If you are in the pink, you are fit, healthy, and happy.
  • be in the wars — If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident.
  • be in the wash — If you say that something such as an item of clothing is in the wash, you mean that it is being washed, is waiting to be washed, or has just been washed and should therefore not be worn or used.
  • be on the ball — to be alert; be efficient
  • be out of luck — If you say that someone is out of luck, you mean that they cannot have something which they can normally have.
  • be struck with — to be attracted to or impressed by
  • bead lightning — lightning in which the intensity appears to vary along the path and which thus resembles a string of beads.
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • beat a retreat — to withdraw or depart in haste
  • beaten biscuit — a hard, unleavened biscuit, made to rise by pounding and folding the dough.
  • 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
  • beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
  • beauty contest — A beauty contest is a competition in which young women are judged to decide which one is the most beautiful.
  • beauty culture — the skill or occupation of a beautician
  • beauty pageant — A beauty pageant is the same as a beauty contest.
  • beauty parlour — A beauty parlour is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example to have their hair, nails or make-up done.
  • beclomethasone — a potent synthetic corticosteroid, C 28 H 37 ClO 7 , prepared as an inhalant in the treatment of bronchial asthma.
  • beggar's-ticks — tick trefoil
  • begging letter — A begging letter is a letter from a person or organization in which they ask you to send some money for a particular purpose.
  • belaya tserkov — city in WC Ukraine: pop. 204,000
  • belaying cleat — a cleat used for belaying
  • 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
  • belo horizonte — a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)
  • below the belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • below the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • below-the-belt — Something that is below the belt is cruel and unfair.
  • below-the-line — denoting the entries printed below the horizontal line on a company's profit-and-loss account that show how any profit is to be distributed
  • 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
  • bending moment — the algebraic sum of all the moments to one side of a cross-section of a beam or other structural support
  • bengal catechu — catechu.
  • benign neglect — If you describe someone's approach to a problem as one of benign neglect, you disapprove of the fact that they are doing nothing and hoping that the problem will solve itself.
  • benzanthracene — a carcinogenic hydrocarbon
  • benzyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 9 H 10 O 2 , having a flowerlike odor: used chiefly for flavoring tobacco and in soaps and cosmetics.
  • bermuda cutter — a marconi-rigged cutter.
  • bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
  • bertrand meyer — The author of the Eiffel Language and many articles on object-oriented software techniques.
  • bessemer steel — steel made by the Bessemer process.
  • bet your boots — to be certain; rely on it
  • beta geminorum — Pollux
  • beta reduction — [lambda-calculus] The application of a lambda abstraction to an argument expression. A copy of the body of the lambda abstraction is made and occurrences of the bound variable being replaced by the argument. E.g. (\ x . x+1) 4 --> 4+1 Beta reduction is the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus. The opposite of beta reduction is beta abstraction. These are the two kinds of beta conversion. See also name capture.
  • beta structure — a secondary structure occurring in many proteins, consisting of several polypeptide chains running in parallel or alternating directions and joined by intermolecular hydrogen bonds, creating a flexible, strong arrangement.
  • beta-endorphin — a potent endorphin released by the anterior pituitary gland in response to pain, trauma, exercise, or other forms of stress.
  • beta-oxidation — a process by which fatty acids are degraded, involving oxidation of the beta carbons and removal of successive two-carbon fragments from the fatty acid.
  • 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
  • betterment tax — a tax on an increase in the value of property effected by improvement
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