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14-letter words containing a, d, n, t

  • bib and tucker — an outfit of clothes (esp in the phrase best bib and tucker)
  • 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.
  • biodegradation — to decay and become absorbed by the environment: toys that will biodegrade when they're discarded.
  • bioremediation — the use of plants to extract heavy metals from contaminated soils and water
  • bird sanctuary — an area of land in which birds are protected and encouraged to breed
  • black and tans — Usually, Black and Tans. an armed force of about 6000 soldiers sent by the British government to Ireland in June, 1920, to suppress revolutionary activity: so called from the colors of their uniform.
  • 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.
  • blind as a bat — having extremely poor eyesight
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
  • blood and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
  • blood relation — A blood relation or blood relative is someone who is related to you by birth rather than by marriage.
  • blood-and-guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
  • boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
  • boatswain bird — tropic bird.
  • body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
  • born yesterday — brought forth by birth.
  • botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
  • boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
  • brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • broken-hearted — Someone who is broken-hearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
  • 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 heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • by the vanload — in very large quantities
  • cadogan teapot — a lidless teapot that is made from or in imitation of an inverted Chinese wine pot and is filled through the bottom.
  • calculatedness — the state of being calculated
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
  • cardinal point — The cardinal points are the four main points of the compass, north, south, east, and west.
  • 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.
  • cardinal trait — a basic and dominant characteristic, as greed or ambition, that, according to a theory developed by psychologist Gordon Allport (1936), controls the behavior of many people.
  • cardiocentesis — surgical puncture of the heart
  • care attendant — (in Britain) a person who is paid to look after one or more severely handicapped people by visiting them frequently and staying when needed, but who does not live in
  • case and paste — (programming)   (From "cut and paste") The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes. This usually results in gross violation of the fundamental programming tenet, Don't Repeat Yourself. Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using "case" statements. Leads to software bloat. In some circles of Emacs users this is called "programming by Meta-W", because Meta-W is the Emacs command for copying a block of text to a kill buffer in preparation to pasting it in elsewhere. The term is condescending, implying that the programmer is acting mindlessly rather than thinking carefully about what is required to integrate the code for two similar cases. At DEC, this is sometimes called "clone-and-hack" coding.
  • cater-cornered — diagonally placed; diagonal
  • catty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
  • center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
  • chalk and talk — a formal method of teaching, in which the focal points are the blackboard and the teacher's voice, as contrasted with more informal child-centred activities
  • charge density — the electric charge per unit volume of a medium or body or per unit area of a surface
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