14-letter words containing b, i, r, d, s
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- free as a bird — really free
- 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 rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- girls' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
- grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
- gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
- haberdasheries — Plural form of haberdashery.
- 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.
- hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
- 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.
- incredibleness — so extraordinary as to seem impossible: incredible speed.
- 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.
- indiscerptible — not discerptible; indivisible.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- inner hebrides — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- kissing bridge — a covered bridge.
- lee's birthday — Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday, a legal holiday in several Southern states
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
- mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- morbid obesity — a state of obesity in which the body mass index is between 40 and 49.9 kg/m2
- mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- non-subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
- orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
- outer hebrides — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- oversubscribed — If something such as an event or a service is oversubscribed, too many people apply to attend the event or use the service.
- persian blinds — persiennes
- possible world — (in modal logic) a semantic device formalizing the notion of what the world might have been like. A statement is necessarily true if and only if it is true in every possible world
- preestablished — to establish beforehand.
- pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- quadrisyllabic — a word or poetic meter with four syllables