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15-letter words containing u, l, e

  • bullock's heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • bullock's-heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • buryat republic — a constituent republic of SE central Russia, on Lake Baikal: mountainous, with forests covering over half the total area. Capital: Ulan-Ude. Pop: 981 000 (2002). Area: 351 300 sq km (135 608 sq miles)
  • business casual — a style of casual clothing worn by businesspeople at work instead of more formal attire
  • business double — a double made to increase the penalty points earned when a player believes the opponents cannot make their bid.
  • business school — A business school is a school or college which teaches business subjects such as economics and management.
  • butler's pantry — a pantry in a large house where crockery, glassware, cutlery, etc is kept
  • butterfly chair — a lightweight chair consisting of a piece of canvas, leather, etc. slung from a framework of metal bars
  • butterfly table — a small occasional table, usually having a round or oval top, with drop leaves supported by swinging brackets pivoted to the stretchers and to the underside of the top.
  • butterfly valve — a disc that acts as a valve by turning about a diameter, esp one used as the throttle valve in a carburettor
  • butterfly wedge — a wooden fastening in the form of a double dovetail for joining two boards at their edges.
  • cabbage lettuce — any of several varieties of lettuce that have roundish flattened heads resembling cabbages
  • cache la poudre — a river in N Colorado, flowing N and E to the South Platte River. 126 miles (203 km) long.
  • cadmium sulfate — a water-soluble compound, CdSO 4 , of colorless crystals, used as an antiseptic.
  • cadmium sulfide — a toxic pigment, CdS, varying from lemon yellow (cadmium yellow) to yellowish orange (cadmium orange) and used in paints, photocells, semiconductors, etc.
  • calabash nutmeg — a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
  • calcareous clay — soil with high limestone content
  • calcareous tufa — tufa
  • calcium blocker — any of a group of drugs that prevent the influx of calcium into excitable tissues such as smooth muscle of the heart or arterioles, used in the treatment of angina, hypertension, and certain arrhythmias.
  • calcium carbide — a grey salt of calcium used in the production of acetylene (by its reaction with water) and calcium cyanamide. Formula: CaC2
  • calcium citrate — the calcium salt of citric acid, used as a food additive
  • calcium cyanide — a white or grayish-black compound, Ca(CN) 2, used as an insecticide and rodent poison.
  • calcium lactate — a salt of lactic acid. Formula: Ca(C3H5O3)2·5H2O
  • calcium nitrate — a white, deliquescent solid, Ca(NO 3) 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, fireworks, matches, and explosives.
  • calcium oxalate — a white, crystalline powder, CaC 2 O 4 , insoluble in water, used in making oxalic acid.
  • calcium sulfate — Calcium sulfate is a white crystalline salt, used as a tablet diluent.
  • calcium sulfide — a yellow to light-gray, slightly water-soluble powder, CaS, having the odor of rotten eggs when moist: used chiefly in the preparation of luminous paint, hydrogen sulfide, and as a depilatory in cosmetics.
  • calculated risk — a chance of failure, the probability of which is estimated before some action is undertaken.
  • call-out charge — a set amount charged for a repairman to come to one's house, or to a broken-down vehicle, which is added to the cost of the actual repair
  • calorific value — the quantity of heat produced by the complete combustion of a given mass of a fuel, usually expressed in joules per kilogram
  • camelback truss — a roof truss having upper and lower chords curving upward from a common point at each side.
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • cannot help but — to be unable to do anything else except
  • canteen culture — the alleged clannishness of the police force, whereby the prevalent attitudes inhibit officers from reporting or speaking out against malpractice, racism, etc
  • canterbury bell — a campanulaceous biennial European plant, Campanula medium, widely cultivated for its blue, violet, or white flowers
  • canterbury lamb — New Zealand lamb exported chilled or frozen to the United Kingdom
  • cape chelyuskin — a cape in N central Russia, in N Siberia at the end of the Taimyr Peninsula: the northernmost point of Asia
  • caprifoliaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caprifoliaceae, a family of N temperate shrubs, small trees, and climbers including honeysuckle, elder, and guelder-rose
  • cardinal number — A cardinal number is a number such as 1, 3, or 10 that tells you how many things there are in a group but not what order they are in. Compare ordinal number.
  • cardinal virtue — anything considered to be an important or characteristic virtue: Tenacity is his cardinal virtue.
  • castellated nut — a nut that has indentations similar to battlements
  • casual labourer — a person who is employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
  • cauliflower ear — permanent swelling and distortion of the external ear as the result of ruptures of the blood vessels: usually caused by blows received in boxing
  • cauliflowerette — a single floret from the head of a cauliflower.
  • cell disruption — Cell disruption is when a biological material becomes smaller to release proteins and enzymes.
  • central sudanic — a group of languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic, and including Mangbetu.
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • cerebrovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels and the blood supply of the brain
  • cervical plexus — a network of nerves branching from the spinal nerves of the neck region and innervating the neck, chest, diaphragm, and part of the face.
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
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