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14-letter words containing a, b, e, r

  • biceps brachii — See under biceps.
  • bicycle-racing — the act or sport of riding or traveling by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
  • bidding prayer — the formal petitionary prayer, said especially in the Anglican Church immediately before the sermon.
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • billiard table — the rectangular table used for playing billiards
  • binary counter — (electronics, hardware)   A digital circuit which has a clock input and a number of count outputs which give the number of clock cycles. The output may change either on rising or falling clock edges. The circuit may also have a reset input which sets all outputs to zero when asserted. The counter may be either a synchronous counter or a ripple counter.
  • binary package — (software)   An archive file that contains all files and directories that must be installed in order to make a working installation of the program(s) included in the package, and the maintainer scripts necessary for the installation. A binary package is usually specific to a certain platform, in contrast to a source package.
  • binding rafter — a timber for supporting rafters between their extremities, as a purlin.
  • binding strake — a very strong, heavy strake of planking, especially one next to a sheer strake.
  • bioaeronautics — the use of aircraft in the discovery, development, and protection of natural and biological resources
  • bioarchaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the remains of living things
  • biodegradation — to decay and become absorbed by the environment: toys that will biodegrade when they're discarded.
  • 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
  • bioremediation — the use of plants to extract heavy metals from contaminated soils and water
  • birdcage clock — lantern clock.
  • birds and bees — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • biscuit barrel — an airtight container of circular section equipped with a lid and used for storing biscuits
  • bit error rate — A bit error rate is the measure of the number of incorrect bits that can be expected in a specified number of bits in a serial stream.
  • bitter cassava — a species of cassava (Manihot esculenta) whose poisonous roots when processed yield tapioca starch
  • black mulberry — a small deciduous tree, Morus nigra, with small leaves, producing edible fruit
  • black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
  • black redstart — a small, Passerine bird, Phoenicurus ochruros, found in Central and S Europe
  • black squirrel — a fox squirrel or gray squirrel in that color phase in which the fur is black.
  • bladder cancer — any cancer of the bladder
  • bladder ketmia — plant with pale yellow flowers
  • bladder ketmie — flower-of-an-hour
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • blanket-flower — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, having showy heads of yellow or red flowers.
  • blantyre-limbe — a city in S Malawi: largest city in the country; formed in 1956 from the adjoining towns of Blantyre and Limbe. Pop: 647 000 (2005 est)
  • bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
  • blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
  • bletchley park — the Buckinghamshire estate which was the centre of British code-breaking operations during World War II
  • bletheranskate — a blatherer
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • block calendar — a calendar in the form of a block of sheets each printed with the date of one day
  • blood relation — A blood relation or blood relative is someone who is related to you by birth rather than by marriage.
  • blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
  • blue straggler — one of a small group of blue stars within a cluster that falls near the main sequence even though other stars of its color have evolved off the main sequence.
  • blue-arsed fly — a blowfly; bluebottle
  • blue-eyed mary — a blue-flowered boraginaceous plant, Omphalodes verna, native to S Europe and cultivated in Britain
  • board of trade — (in the United Kingdom) a ministry within the Department of Trade: responsible for the supervision of commerce and the promotion of export trade
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • body corporate — a group of persons incorporated to carry out a specific enterprise
  • bokhara clover — white melilot.
  • bomber command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to tactical and strategic bombing, esp during WWII
  • bone porcelain — bone china.
  • boolean search — (information science)   (Or "Boolean query") A query using the Boolean operators, AND, OR, and NOT, and parentheses to construct a complex condition from simpler criteria. A typical example is searching for combinatons of keywords on a web search engine. Examples: car or automobile "New York" and not "New York state" The term is sometimes stretched to include searches using other operators, e.g. "near". Not to be confused with binary search. See also: weighted search.
  • booster cables — jumper cables
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