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14-letter words containing a, r, n

  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • brewer's grain — an exhausted malt occurring as a by-product of brewing and used as a feedstuff for cattle, pigs, and sheep
  • briefing paper — a document providing relevant facts and information
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
  • britannia coin — any of four British gold coins introduced in 1987 for investment purposes; their denominations are £100, £50, £25, and £10
  • british guiana — Guyana
  • britney spears — beers
  • brobdingnagian — gigantic; huge; immense
  • broken-hearted — Someone who is broken-hearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
  • 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
  • bronchorrhagia — hemorrhage from the bronchial tubes.
  • bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
  • brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
  • brown bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
  • brown thrasher — a common large songbird, Toxostoma rufum, of the eastern U.S., having reddish-brown plumage.
  • browntail moth — kind of moth
  • building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
  • building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
  • bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
  • bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
  • bush, vannevar — Vannevar Bush
  • buying manager — The buying manager of a store is a senior employee whose job is to manage the purchase and delivery of products and supplies, maintaining stock levels.
  • byzantine rite — the rite of the Greek Orthodox Church and of certain Uniat churches, observed in the Greek language.
  • 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.
  • cadaverousness — of or like a corpse.
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
  • cagayan de oro — city in E Mindanao, in the Philippines; pop. 340,000
  • cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
  • calamine brass — an alloy of zinc carbonate and copper, formerly used to imitate gold.
  • 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.
  • call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
  • call screening — a facility that plays an announcement and records messages, enabling the person called to decide whether or not to answer the call
  • caloric energy — energy measured in calories
  • calorification — the production of heat
  • camp counselor — activities supervisor
  • campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
  • campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
  • can ill afford — If you say that someone can ill afford to do something, or can ill afford something, you mean that they must prevent it from happening because it would be harmful or embarrassing to them.
  • canadian river — a river in the southern US, rising in NE New Mexico and flowing east to the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. Length: 1458 km (906 miles)
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