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14-letter words containing t, e, o, a, l

  • betake oneself — to go; move
  • betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
  • bill of health — a certificate, issued by a port officer, that attests to the health of a ship's company
  • billy no-mates — a person with no friends
  • bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
  • blanket-flower — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, having showy heads of yellow or red flowers.
  • bleat on about — If you say that someone is bleating on about something, you mean that they are talking about it a great deal in a way which makes them sound weak and irritating.
  • blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
  • blood platelet — any of the minute, disklike, colorless elements of the blood that are essential for normal clotting
  • blood relation — A blood relation or blood relative is someone who is related to you by birth rather than by marriage.
  • blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
  • blow off steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
  • blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
  • body beautiful — a beautiful body
  • bolshoi ballet — a ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776.
  • booster cables — jumper cables
  • bornyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 12 H 20 O 2 , having a piny, camphorlike odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of perfume, and as a plasticizer.
  • bornyl formate — a liquid, C 11 H 18 O 2 , having a piny odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of soaps and disinfectants.
  • bottle gentian — closed gentian.
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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."
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • by the vanload — in very large quantities
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • 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.
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • cantankerously — In a cantankerous manner.
  • canton flannel — cotton flannel
  • caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
  • caramelization — the conversion of sugar into caramel, caused by heating
  • 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.
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • casement cloth — a sheer fabric made of a variety of fibers, used for window curtains and as backing for heavy drapery or decorative fabrics.
  • castelo branco — Humberto de Alencar [oon-ber-too di ah-len-kahr] /ũˈbɛr tʊ dɪ ɑ lɛ̃ˈkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1900–67, Brazilian general and statesman: president 1964–67.
  • castle shannon — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
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