0%

14-letter words containing le

  • bottomless pit — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
  • bottomlessness — the quality of being very deep or bottomless
  • bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
  • bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
  • bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
  • brass knuckles — linked metal rings or a metal bar with holes for the fingers, worn for rough fighting
  • brief of title — abstract of title
  • british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
  • bubble chamber — a device that enables the tracks of ionizing particles to be photographed as a row of bubbles in a superheated liquid. Immediately before the particles enter the chamber the pressure is reduced so that the ionized particles act as centres for small vapour bubbles
  • bubble company — a company whose shares are highly valued and then plummet
  • buffalo beetle — the hairy larva of a carpet beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariae), harmful to furs and woolens
  • 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."
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • burghley house — an Elizabethan mansion near Stamford in Lincolnshire: seat of the Cecil family; site of the annual Burghley Horse Trials
  • 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
  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • business cycle — the recurrent fluctuation between boom and depression in the economic activity of a capitalist country
  • businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
  • butler's table — a small table, usually used as a coffee table, with a removable or fixed butler's tray for a top.
  • butter brickle — an ice-cream flavor, usually vanilla or butterscotch, containing crunchy bits of butterscotch candy.
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • 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.
  • cable's length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • cafe con leche — a drink made by mixing strong coffee with hot or scalded milk
  • calendar clock — a clock that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time, and sometimes indicates the phases of the moon and other periodical data.
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • calendar watch — a watch that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time.
  • caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
  • camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
  • camp pendleton — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SW California on the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
  • canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
  • canceled check — a check that has been redeemed by a bank and then usually returned to the issuer.
  • candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
  • capital letter — Capital letters are the same as capital s.
  • cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
  • carelessnesses — Plural form of carelessness.
  • carrara marble — a white or blue-gray marble quarried at Carrara, Italy.
  • carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
  • casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
  • castle shannon — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • cataleptically — in a trancelike or cataleptic manner
  • cattle breeder — a person who breeds and raises cattle
  • celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
  • celery cabbage — Chinese cabbage.
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • celestial city — the goal of Christian's journey in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; the heavenly Jerusalem.
  • celestial pole — either of the two points at which the earth's axis, extended to infinity, would intersect the celestial sphere
  • central valley — the chief wine-producing region of California, centered in San Joaquin County.
  • centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
  • changeableness — The condition of being changeable.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?