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

  • belaya tserkov — city in WC Ukraine: pop. 204,000
  • 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
  • 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
  • bioelectricity — electricity generated by a living organism
  • bioelectronics — a branch of electronics that deals with electronic devices, implants, etc. used in medicine and biological research
  • bioluminescent — the production of light by living organisms.
  • biometeorology — the study of the effect of weather conditions on living organisms
  • bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
  • bite one's lip — If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances.
  • 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
  • blister copper — an impure form of copper having a blister-like surface due to the release of gas during cooling
  • 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.
  • blow one's top — to lose one's temper
  • blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
  • bluebottle fly — any of several iridescent blue blow flies, especially those of the genus Calliphora, some of which are parasitic on domestic animals.
  • 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.
  • borrow trouble — to worry about anything needlessly or before one has sufficient cause
  • boston lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce
  • bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
  • bottle gentian — closed gentian.
  • bottle turning — the turning of the legs of chairs, tables, etc., in manufacturing to give certain sections an ornamental, bottlelike form.
  • bottomless pit — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
  • bottomlessness — the quality of being very deep or bottomless
  • bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
  • boutique hotel — A boutique hotel is a small, high-quality and usually attractive hotel.
  • bowel movement — the discharge of faeces; defecation
  • boy-meets-girl — conventionally or trivially romantic
  • 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.
  • 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.
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