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14-letter words containing b, e, d, o

  • draw-top table — a table that can be extended by sliding one or more additional leaves into place
  • dropper bottle — A dropper bottle is a container from which medicine is administered using a device that lets the medicine out in drops.
  • dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
  • 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
  • edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
  • exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
  • expansion bend — a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level
  • feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
  • fibrinopeptide — (protein) A polypeptide fragment, cleaved from fibrinogen by thrombin, that combines to form fibrin during blood-clotting.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fit to be tied — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
  • food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
  • football field — ground where soccer is played
  • forbidden city — a walled section of Peking, built in the 15th century, containing the imperial palace and other buildings of the imperial government of China.
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
  • freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
  • go a bundle on — to be extremely fond of
  • go to bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • golden goodbye — A golden goodbye is the same as a golden handshake.
  • golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • golden warbler — yellow warbler.
  • gordon bennett — an exclamation of surprise
  • governing body — board, regulatory authority
  • groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
  • hobbledehoydom — the condition of being a hobbledehoy
  • hobbledehoyish — of or like a hobbledehoy
  • homeward bound — going home
  • hooded warbler — a wood warbler, Wilsonia citrina, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and having a black head and throat with a yellow face.
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • hors de combat — disabled or injured
  • hydroxybenzene — phenol (def 1).
  • hydroxybenzoic — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid or its derivatives.
  • imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.
  • in one's blood — If a quality or talent is in your blood, it is part of your nature, and other members of your family have it too.
  • inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
  • inconsiderable — small, as in value, amount, or size.
  • inconsiderably — To an inconsiderable degree.
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
  • indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
  • indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
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