14-letter words containing et
- blister beetle — any beetle of the family Meloidae, many of which produce a secretion that blisters the skin
- blood platelet — any of the minute, disklike, colorless elements of the blood that are essential for normal clotting
- bolshoi ballet — a ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776.
- 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.
- boston lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce
- boy-meets-girl — conventionally or trivially romantic
- bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
- broken society — a perceived or apparent general decline in moral values
- bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
- budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
- 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
- budget surplus — the amount by which government income from taxation, customs duties, etc, exceeds expenditure in any one fiscal year
- budgetary year — the financial year a budget is drawn up for
- buffalo beetle — the hairy larva of a carpet beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariae), harmful to furs and woolens
- bull stretcher — Also called bullnose stretcher. a brick having one of the edges along its length rounded for laying as a stretcher in a sill or the like.
- bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
- 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
- buteyko method — a breath control technique used to prevent hyperventilation and treat asthma without drugs
- buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
- buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
- cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
- camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
- capital assets — any assets, tangible or intangible, that are held for long-term investment
- capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
- capital letter — Capital letters are the same as capital s.
- capital market — the financial institutions collectively that deal with medium-term and long-term capital and loans
- captive market — a group of consumers who are obliged through lack of choice to buy a particular product, thus giving the supplier a monopoly
- carcinogenetic — Of or pertaining to carcinogenesis; forming cancer cells.
- cardinal tetra — a small, brilliantly colored red and blue characin fish, Paracheirodon axelrodi, native to tropical forest streams in Brazil and Colombia: a popular aquarium fish.
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- 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
- carpet muncher — lesbian
- carpet slipper — Carpet slippers are soft, comfortable slippers.
- carpet sweeper — a pushable, long-handled implement for removing dirt, lint, etc., from rugs and carpets, consisting of a metal case enclosing one or more brushes that rotate.
- carpet-sweeper — a household device with a revolving brush for sweeping carpets
- carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
- castrametation — the art of designing and laying out an encampment
- 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
- centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
- cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
- charm bracelet — a bracelet that has small ornaments fixed to it
- chemosynthetic — That utilizes chemosynthesis.
- chicken fillet — a fillet cut from a chicken
- chloroethylene — vinyl chloride.
- cholinomimetic — mimicking the action of choline, especially acetylcholine.
- 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.
- cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
- cigarette butt — A cigarette butt or a cigarette end is the part of a cigarette that you throw away when you have finished smoking it.