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15-letter words containing et

  • bet one's boots — to be certain
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • beta-adrenergic — pertaining to or involving beta receptors
  • beurre noisette — a sauce of butter cooked until golden or nut brown, sometimes flavored with capers, vinegar, herbs, etc.
  • billings method — a natural method of birth control that involves examining the colour and viscosity of the cervical mucus to discover when ovulation is occurring
  • bite the bullet — to face up to (pain, trouble, etc) with fortitude; be stoical
  • bittersweetness — the quality of being bittersweet
  • black marketeer — A black marketeer is someone who sells goods on the black market.
  • black-marketeer — to sell articles in the black market.
  • box chronometer — a ship's chronometer, supported on gimbals in a wooden box
  • brackett series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
  • britannia metal — an alloy of low melting point consisting of tin with 5–10 per cent antimony, 1–3 per cent copper, and sometimes small quantities of zinc, lead, or bismuth: used for decorative purposes and for bearings
  • bronze diabetes — hemochromatosis.
  • brussels carpet — a worsted carpet with a heavy pile formed by uncut loops of wool on a linen warp
  • bucket conveyor — a conveyor consisting of an endless chain with a series of buckets attached at regular intervals, used for moving ore, gravel, grain, or other bulk materials.
  • bucket elevator — a chain of buckets for raising liquids or materials to a higher level
  • business ethics — moral constraints on trading practices
  • cabbage lettuce — any of several varieties of lettuce that have roundish flattened heads resembling cabbages
  • cabinet meeting — a regular meeting of the cabinet
  • cabinet picture — a small easel painting, usually under 3 feet (0.9 meters) in width and formerly exhibited in a cabinet or special room.
  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • cabinet scraper — a scraper used in preparing a wood surface for sanding.
  • cafeteria-style — set up to allow a variety of choices.
  • capital letters — a letter of the alphabet that usually differs from its corresponding lowercase letter in form and height, as A, B, Q, and R as distinguished from a, b, q, and r : used as the initial letter of a proper name, the first word of a sentence, etc.
  • cardinal beetle — any of various large N temperate beetles of the family Pyrochroidae, such as Pyrochroa serraticornis, typically scarlet or partly scarlet in colour
  • carpometacarpal — Anatomy. of or relating to the carpus and the metacarpus.
  • carpometacarpus — a bone in the wing of a bird that consists of the metacarpal bones and some of the carpal bones fused together
  • carriage return — a mechanism on a typewriter that causes the carriage to return to the left side of the paper
  • cassette memory — a removable magnetic tape cartridge that stores data and programs.
  • cassette player — A cassette player is a machine that is used for playing cassettes and sometimes also recording them.
  • castrametations — Plural form of castrametation.
  • catheterisation — Alternative spelling of catheterization.
  • catheterization — to introduce a catheter into.
  • cauliflowerette — a single floret from the head of a cauliflower.
  • centrosymmetric — having symmetry with a central point
  • ceteris paribus — other things being equal
  • cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
  • chemical toilet — a toilet in which waste is treated with chemicals
  • chicken nuggets — small pieces of chicken fried in batter
  • chief secretary — (in Britain) the second most senior Treasury post, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • chile saltpeter — sodium nitrate, esp. as found naturally in Chile and Peru
  • chile saltpetre — a naturally occurring form of sodium nitrate: a soluble white or colourless mineral occurring in arid regions, esp in Chile and Peru
  • chiller cabinet — a cupboard or chest in a shop where chilled foods and drinks are displayed and kept cool
  • chondroskeleton — the cartilaginous part of the skeleton of vertebrates
  • chorioretinitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the choroid and retina of the eye.
  • chromic acetate — a grayish-green, water-soluble powder, Cr(C 2 H 3 O 2) 3 ⋅H 2 O, used chiefly as a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles.
  • cigarette paper — a piece of thin paper rolled around tobacco to form a cigarette
  • cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
  • cinder concrete — concrete having small coal clinkers as an aggregate.
  • cobble together — If you say that someone has cobbled something together, you mean that they have made or produced it roughly or quickly.
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