14-letter words containing a, e, r, o, b, s
- 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
- blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
- boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
- 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
- border disease — a congenital infectious disease of sheep and goats caused by a Togavirus and characterized by abortion, infertility, and deformity of lambs
- born yesterday — brought forth by birth.
- boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
- bow and scrape — to behave in an excessively deferential or obsequious way
- bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
- bradford score — a measure of the amount of time during which an employee is absent from work, based on assigning a number of points according to the frequency and length of absences
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- bras d'or lake — an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in the center Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. 360 sq. mi. (930 sq. km).
- brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
- break of serve — the act or instance of breaking an opponent's service
- breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
- breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
- breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
- bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
- broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
- bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
- brood parasite — a young bird hatched and reared by birds of a different species as a result of brood parasitism.
- brown thrasher — a common large songbird, Toxostoma rufum, of the eastern U.S., having reddish-brown plumage.
- camera obscura — a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture
- campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
- carbon process — a photographic process for producing positive prints by exposing sensitized carbon tissue to light passing through a negative. Washing removes the unexposed gelatine leaving the pigmented image in the exposed insoluble gelatine
- carbro process — a process for making carbon or pigment prints on bromide paper without exposure to light.
- castelo branco — Humberto de Alencar [oon-ber-too di ah-len-kahr] /ũˈbɛr tʊ dɪ ɑ lɛ̃ˈkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1900–67, Brazilian general and statesman: president 1964–67.
- charles talbot — Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
- cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
- comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
- cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- deplorableness — The state or quality of being deplorable.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire