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

  • belvoir castle — a castle in Leicestershire, near Grantham (in Lincolnshire): seat of the Dukes of Rutland; rebuilt by James Wyatt in 1816
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • bottle gentian — closed gentian.
  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
  • caramelization — the conversion of sugar into caramel, caused by heating
  • 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
  • cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
  • celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
  • central office — (communications)   The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
  • central region — a former local government region in central Scotland, formed in 1975 from Clackmannanshire, most of Stirlingshire, and parts of Perthshire, West Lothian, Fife, and Kinross-shire; in 1996 it was replaced by the council areas of Stirling, Clackmannanshire, and Falkirk
  • centralisation — Alternative spelling of centralization.
  • centralization — the act or fact of centralizing; fact of being centralized.
  • centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • ceremonial tea — a Japanese green tea made from choice shade-grown leaves that are cured by a steaming, drying, and powdering process: used in chanoyu.
  • chalcotrichite — a fibrous variety of cuprite.
  • channelization — the action or process of channelizing
  • chemical toner — toner (def 4).
  • chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • chloroargyrite — a greyish-yellow or colourless soft secondary mineral consisting of silver chloride in cubic crystalline form: a source of silver. Formula: AgCl
  • chlorothiazide — a diuretic drug administered orally in the treatment of chronic heart and kidney disease and hypertension. Formula: C7H6ClN3O4S2
  • chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
  • chocolate milk — milk flavored with chocolate syrup or powdered chocolate.
  • cholelithiases — the presence of gallstones.
  • cholelithiasis — the occurrence or development of gallstones in the gall bladder
  • cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
  • cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
  • choral society — an organization of amateur singers
  • chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
  • citronella oil — the yellow aromatic oil obtained from citronella grass, used in insect repellents, soaps, perfumes, etc
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