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

  • bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
  • cabbage looper — the larva of a noctuid moth, Trichoplusia ni, common throughout the U.S. and Canada, that feeds on a wide variety of vegetable crops, especially cabbage and lettuce.
  • 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.
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • calamine brass — an alloy of zinc carbonate and copper, formerly used to imitate gold.
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
  • carbon capture — the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change
  • carbon dioxide — Carbon dioxide is a gas. It is produced by animals and people breathing out, and by chemical reactions.
  • carbon neutral — A carbon neutral lifestyle, company, or activity does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
  • 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
  • carbon-neutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • carbonate rock — Carbonate rock is a sedimentary rock which is composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃).
  • carbro process — a process for making carbon or pigment prints on bromide paper without exposure to light.
  • carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • 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
  • carry the ball — to assume responsibility; take command
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • 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.
  • cattle breeder — a person who breeds and raises cattle
  • celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
  • celery cabbage — Chinese cabbage.
  • cerebral palsy — Cerebral palsy is a condition caused by damage to a baby's brain before or during its birth, which makes its limbs and muscles permanently weak.
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • charles albert — 1798–1849, king of Sardinia-Piedmont (1831–49) during the Risorgimento: abdicated after the failure of his revolt against Austria
  • charles talbotCharles, Duke of Shrewsbury, 1660–1718, British statesman: prime minister 1714.
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • charm bracelet — a bracelet that has small ornaments fixed to it
  • charter member — A charter member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
  • chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
  • chicken breast — pigeon breast
  • chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
  • cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
  • christmasberry — toyon.
  • cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
  • cigarette butt — A cigarette butt or a cigarette end is the part of a cigarette that you throw away when you have finished smoking it.
  • circumambulate — to walk around (something)
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • clabber cheese — cottage cheese.
  • clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
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