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14-letter words containing b, e, t, a, i

  • breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
  • breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
  • breast-beating — public or ostentatious expression of guilt, remorse, or sorrow
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • breathtakingly — thrillingly beautiful, remarkable, astonishing, exciting, or the like: a breathtaking performance.
  • brewster chair — a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
  • britney spears — beers
  • 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
  • brood parasite — a young bird hatched and reared by birds of a different species as a result of brood parasitism.
  • 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.
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • budget heading — a heading in a budget under which an expenditure is listed
  • bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
  • building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
  • by appointment — If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.
  • 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.
  • capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • 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
  • carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
  • 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
  • celestial body — an object visible in the sky, such as a planet
  • charitableness — (uncountable) The quality of being charitable.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • citizens' band — Citizens' Band is a range of radio frequencies which the general public is allowed to use to send messages to each other and is used especially by truck drivers in their vehicles. The abbreviation CB is often used.
  • climb the wall — If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
  • cocktail table — a low table as for serving refreshments, esp. one in a living room
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
  • compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
  • concealability — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
  • conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
  • concelebration — the celebration of a Eucharist or Mass by two or more members of the clergy.
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