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14-letter words containing t, e, l

  • brazil current — a warm current in the Atlantic Ocean flowing SE along the E coast of Brazil.
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • break the mold — If you say that someone breaks the mold, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
  • breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • 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
  • brewster's law — the law that light will receive maximum polarization from a reflecting surface when it is incident to the surface at an angle (angle of polarization or polarizing angle) having a tangent equal to the index of refraction of the surface.
  • 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.
  • buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
  • budget surplus — the amount by which government income from taxation, customs duties, etc, exceeds expenditure in any one fiscal year
  • 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."
  • builder's knot — clove hitch
  • 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
  • bull stretcher — Also called bullnose stretcher. a brick having one of the edges along its length rounded for laying as a stretcher in a sill or the like.
  • bull's-eye rot — a disease of apples and pears, characterized by sunken, eyelike spots on the fruit and twig cankers, caused by any of several fungi, especially of the genus Neofabraea.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • butter brickle — an ice-cream flavor, usually vanilla or butterscotch, containing crunchy bits of butterscotch candy.
  • butterfly bomb — Military. a small, aerial, antipersonnel bomb with two folding wings that revolve, slowing the rate of descent and arming the fuze.
  • butterfly bush — buddleia
  • 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
  • butterfly knot — a particularly resistant knot which resembles a butterfly and can take loads on both ends, as well as on the loop
  • butterfly roof — a roof having more than one slope, each descending inward from the eaves.
  • butterfly weed — a North American asclepiadaceous plant, Asclepias tuberosa (or A. decumbens), having flat-topped clusters of bright orange flowers
  • buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
  • butyl aldehyde — butyraldehyde
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • by the vanload — in very large quantities
  • c with classes — Short-lived predecessor to C++.
  • 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.
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • cache conflict — (storage)   A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
  • 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.
  • calamata olive — a purplish-black, almond-shaped olive with a fruity flavor and meaty texture, often split and cured in brine and packed in vinegar.
  • calculatedness — the state of being calculated
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • calendar watch — a watch that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time.
  • call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
  • call the shots — The person who calls the shots is in a position to tell others what to do.
  • caloosahatchee — a river in S Florida, flowing W to the Gulf of Mexico near Fort Myers. 75 miles (121 km) long.
  • camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
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