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

  • barium chloride — a poisonous compound, BaCl2, consisting of flat white crystals that are soluble in water: it is used to treat water, metals, leather, etc.
  • barium chromate — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
  • barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
  • barn conversion — the adaptation of a farm barn into a building serving a different use, such as a house or commercial premises
  • barracks lawyer — a member of the armed forces who speaks or acts like an authority on military law, regulations, and the rights of service personnel.
  • barrancabermeja — a city in N Colombia.
  • barycentrically — In a barycentric manner.
  • basic anhydride — a compound formed by removing water from a more complex compound: an oxide of a nonmetal (acid anhydride) or a metal (basic anhydride) that forms an acid or a base, respectively, when united with water.
  • basic autocoder — Early system on IBM 7070. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • bathroom scales — scales typically kept in a bathroom for people to weigh themselves
  • bathymetrically — In a bathymetric way.
  • battery charger — a device that can restore the charge to a battery, usually by means of electricity
  • be carried away — to be moved to great or unreasoning emotion or enthusiasm
  • beach goldenrod — a composite plant, Solidago sempervirens, of eastern and southern North America, having a thick stem and large, branched, one-sided terminal clusters of yellow flowers, flourishing on sea beaches or salt marshes.
  • bear animalcule — tardigrade (def 3).
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • béarnaise sauce — a creamy sauce, esp. for meat or fish, made of butter and egg yolks and flavored with wine, vinegar, shallots, and herbs
  • before the fact — before the commission of the offence
  • belt-and-braces — providing double security, in case one security measure should fail
  • ben day process — a method of adding texture, shading, or detail to line drawings by overlaying a transparent sheet of dots or any other pattern during platemaking
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • benzal chloride — a colorless, oily liquid, C 7 H 6 Cl 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of benzaldehyde, and in the manufacture of dyes.
  • berenice's hair — the constellation Coma Berenices
  • berkeley castle — a castle in Gloucestershire: scene of the murder of Edward II in 1327
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • beta-adrenergic — pertaining to or involving beta receptors
  • biblical hebrew — the Hebrew language used in the Old Testament. Abbreviation: BiblHeb.
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • big black river — a river in N central Mississippi, flowing SW to the Mississippi River near Vicksburg. 330 miles (531 km) long.
  • big sandy creek — a river in central Colorado, flowing NE and SE to the Arkansas River near Lamar: site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. 200 miles (322 km) long.
  • birch partridge — ruffed grouse
  • black horehound — a hairy unpleasant-smelling chiefly Mediterranean plant, Ballota nigra, having clusters of purple flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
  • black marketeer — A black marketeer is someone who sells goods on the black market.
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • black raspberry — a plant, Rubus occidentalis, of E North America, that has black berry-like fruits
  • black sea bream — a sparid fish, Spondyliosoma cantharus, found in N Europe and the Mediterranean
  • black september — a Palestinian Terrorist group, responsible for the assassinations of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games at Munich in 1972
  • black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
  • black-marketeer — to sell articles in the black market.
  • blackberry bush — a bush on which blackberries grow
  • blackberry lily — an ornamental Chinese iridaceous plant, Belamcanda chinensis, that has red-spotted orange flowers and clusters of black seeds that resemble blackberries
  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
  • blockade runner — a person, ship etc that tries to carry goods through a blockade
  • blockade-runner — a ship or person that passes through a blockade.
  • board-certified — A doctor who is board-certified has passed tests and meets the standards of a board of specialists in their area of medicine.
  • borderline case — a person or thing that is not clearly classifiable as something
  • borrower's card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
  • boston massacre — an outbreak (1770) in Boston against British troops, in which a few citizens were killed
  • brachial plexus — a network of nerves in the armpits and neck, innervating the shoulders, arms, and hands.
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