14-letter words containing b, e, t, d
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- 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.
- 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.
- gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- go to bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- gordon bennett — an exclamation of surprise
- 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.
- hair's breadth — A hair's breadth is a very small degree or amount.
- hair's-breadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- hand's-breadth — handbreadth
- handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- hereditability — heritable.
- hors de combat — disabled or injured
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- indefinability — The quality of being indefinable.
- indeliberately — done without care; special planning or deliberation; unintentional.
- indemonstrable — not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.
- indemonstrably — In a way that cannot be demonstrated.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
- indeterminable — not determinable; incapable of being ascertained.
- indeterminably — In an indeterminable manner.
- indirect labor — labor performed, as by maintenance and clerical workers, that is not considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- indiscerptible — not discerptible; indivisible.
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
- james breasted — James Henry, 1865–1935, U.S. archaeologist and historian of ancient Egypt.
- keep sb posted — update regularly
- kentucky derby — a horse race for three-year-olds, run annually since 1875, on the first Saturday in May, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.: the first race in the Triple Crown.
- labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
- lambeth degree — an honorary degree conferred by the archbishop of Canterbury in divinity, arts, law, medicine, or music.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
- leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- liberty bodice — a sleeveless vest-like undergarment made from thick cotton and covering the upper part of the body, formerly worn esp by young children
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
- lord baltimore — David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
- mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics) (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- master bedroom — a principal bedroom in a house or apartment, usually the largest, typically occupied by the person or persons who head the household.