14-letter words containing al
- ballet slipper — a heelless cloth or leather slipper worn by ballet dancers.
- ballistic wind — a single wind vector that would have the same net effect on the trajectory of a projectile as the varying winds encountered in flight.
- ballon d'essai — a project or policy put forward experimentally to gauge reactions to it
- balloon sleeve — a sleeve fitting tightly from wrist to elbow and becoming fully rounded from elbow to shoulder
- ballot rigging — Ballot rigging is the act of illegally changing the result of an election by producing a false record of the number of votes.
- ballroom dance — a social dance, popular since the beginning of the 20th century, in conventional rhythms, such as the foxtrot and the quickstep
- balm of gilead — any of several trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora, esp C. opobalsamum of Africa and W Asia, that yield a fragrant oily resin
- balm-of-gilead — any of several plants of the genus Commiphora, especially C. opobalsamum and C. meccanensis, which yield a fragrant oleoresin.
- balsam of peru — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
- balsam of tolu — tolu
- balsaminaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Balsaminaceae, a family of flowering plants, including balsam and touch-me-not, that have irregular flowers and explosive capsules
- baltimore chop — a batted ball that takes a high bounce upon hitting the ground on or immediately in front of home plate, often enabling the batter to reach first base safely.
- balto-slavonic — a hypothetical subfamily of Indo-European languages consisting of Baltic and Slavonic. It is now generally believed that similarities between them result from geographical proximity rather than any special relationship
- banach algebra — (mathematics) An algebra in which the vector space is a Banach space.
- baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
- baptismal name — Christian name (def 1).
- baptismal vows — the solemn promises made during baptism, either by the person baptized or by his or her sponsors
- barometrically — By means of a barometer.
- barong tagalog — (in the Philippines) a man's long-sleeved formal overblouse, made of fine, sheer fabric, often embroidered.
- basal ganglion — any of several masses of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere.
- baseball glove — a padded glove with webbing between the thumb and index finger, worn by baseball players
- bathygraphical — (of a maps) representing the contours of the seabed
- bay psalm book — a translation of the Psalms by John Eliot and others: the first book published (1640) in America.
- be on the ball — to be alert; be efficient
- beaufort scale — an international scale of wind velocities ranging for practical purposes from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane force). In the US an extension of the scale, from 13 to 17 for winds over 64 knots, is used
- belletristical — relating to the fine arts
- beneficialness — the state of being beneficial
- bengal catechu — catechu.
- benzyl alcohol — a colorless, faintly aromatic, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 8 O, used chiefly as a solvent in the manufacture of perfumes and flavorings, and as an intermediate in the synthesis of benzyl esters and ethers.
- biblical latin — the form of Latin used in versions of the Bible, esp the form used in the Vulgate
- bibliomaniacal — relating to a bibliomaniac
- bicuspid valve — mitral valve
- bidialectalism — the state of being bidialectal
- bill of health — a certificate, issued by a port officer, that attests to the health of a ship's company
- bioequivalence — the equality of strength, bioavailability, and dosage of various drug products
- biogeochemical — of or relating to biogeochemistry
- bioregionalism — the conviction that environmental and social policies should be determined by the bioregion rather than economics or politics
- bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
- biostatistical — relating to biostatistics
- black basaltes — basaltware.
- block calendar — a calendar in the form of a block of sheets each printed with the date of one day
- block capitals — Block capitals are simple capital letters that are not decorated in any way.
- bolshoi ballet — a ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776.
- bornyl alcohol — white solid alcohol from a Malaysian tree
- boundary value — boundary value analysis
- brachycephalic — having a head nearly as broad from side to side as from front to back, esp one with a cephalic index over 80
- brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
- branchial arch — Zoology. one of a series of bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians; gill bar.
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- break-up value — the value of an organization assuming that it will not continue to trade