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14-letter words containing u, t, i

  • bound moisture — Bound moisture is liquid in a solid, which exerts a vapor pressure that is less than the pure liquid would do at the same temperature.
  • boutique hotel — A boutique hotel is a small, high-quality and usually attractive hotel.
  • brazil current — a warm current in the Atlantic Ocean flowing SE along the E coast of Brazil.
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • bridge circuit — any of several networks, such as a Wheatstone bridge, consisting of two branches across which a measuring device is connected. The resistance, capacitance, etc, of one component can be determined from the known values of the others when the voltage in each branch is balanced
  • bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
  • british guiana — Guyana
  • british museum — a museum in London, founded in 1753: contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) most of the British Library
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • budget deficit — the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • 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
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
  • burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
  • bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
  • 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
  • business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
  • butter brickle — an ice-cream flavor, usually vanilla or butterscotch, containing crunchy bits of butterscotch candy.
  • butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • 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
  • buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
  • buyers' strike — an attempt on the part of consumers to lower price levels by boycotting retailers or certain types of goods.
  • 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.
  • capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • capital outlay — a capital expenditure.
  • captain crunch — 1.   (person)   ("Cap'n Crunch") An early 1970s hacker/phreaker/phacker who used a free whistle included with "Cap'n Crunch" breakfast cereal to fake pay phone system tones and make large quantities of free phone calls. Also alludes to "crunch". 2. (After the above) wardialer. 3. Reportedly, a program which crashes a computer by overloading the interrupt stack.
  • cardiac output — blood volume in liters pumped by the left ventricle of the heart per minute.
  • caricaturistic — Grossly and comically exaggerated, like a caricature.
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • caustic baryta — baryta (def 2).
  • caustic potash — potassium hydroxide
  • caustic-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • chauvinist pig — a sexist man
  • check-out time — the time by which one has to check out of a hotel
  • chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
  • chicken turtle — an edible, freshwater turtle, Deirochelys reticularia, of the southeastern U.S., characterized by a long neck and by the network of fine, yellow lines marking the dark carapace.
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • christmas bush — any of various trees or shrubs flowering at Christmas and used for decoration
  • christmas club — a savings account in a bank in which regular deposits are made, usually throughout one year, as to provide funds for Christmas shopping.
  • chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
  • church integer — (theory)   A representation of integers as functions invented by Alonzo Church, inventor of lambda-calculus. The integer N is represented as a higher-order function which applies a given function N times to a given expression. In the pure lambda-calculus there are no constants but numbers can be represented by Church integers. A Haskell function to return a given Church integer could be written: unchurch c = c (+1) 0 See also von Neumann integer.
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