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

  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • lemonade berry — a sumac, Rhus integrifolia, of southern California, having hairy, dark-red fruits used to make a beverage resembling lemonade.
  • leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • load balancing — (operating system, parallel)   Techniques which aim to spread tasks among the processors in a parallel processor to avoid some processors being idle while others have tasks queueing for execution. Load balancing may be performed either by heavily loaded processors (with many tasks in their queues) sending tasks to other processors; by idle processors requesting work from others; by some centralised task distribution mechanism; or some combination of these. Some systems allow tasks to be moved after they have started executing ("task migration") others do not. It is important that the overhead of executing the load balancing algorithm does not contribute significantly to the overall processing or communications load. Distributed scheduling algorithms may be static, dynamic or preemptive. Static algorithms allocate processes to processors at run time while taking no account of current network load. Dynamic algorithms are more flexible, though more computationally expensive, and give some consideration to the network load before allocating the new process to a processor. Preemptive algorithms are more expensive and flexible still, and may migrate running processes from one host to another if deemed beneficial. Research to date indicates that dynamic algorithms yield significant performance benefits, but that further (though lesser) gains may be had through the addition of process migration facilities.
  • lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
  • lord baltimore — David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
  • lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
  • make one's bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • 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.
  • mandibulohyoid — (anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch.
  • marble orchard — cemetery.
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • master bedroom — a principal bedroom in a house or apartment, usually the largest, typically occupied by the person or persons who head the household.
  • matteo bojardo — Matteo Maria [mah-tey-oh muh-ree-uh;; Italian maht-te-aw mah-ree-ah] /mɑˈteɪ oʊ məˈri ə;; Italian mɑtˈtɛ ɔ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), Boiardo, Matteo Maria.
  • mills-and-boon — of or relating to novels by the British publisher Mills and Boon, esp in being romantic or sexual in nature
  • mobile command — the Canadian army and other land forces
  • molded breadth — the extreme breadth of the framing of a vessel, excluding the thickness of the plating or planking.
  • morbid anatomy — the branch of medical science concerned with the study of the structure of diseased organs and tissues
  • morbidity rate — a measure of the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality
  • mother hubbard — a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.
  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
  • municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
  • news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
  • no fixed abode — If someone has no fixed abode, they are homeless.
  • non-adjustable — capable of being adjusted: adjustable seat belts.
  • non-admissible — that may be allowed or conceded; allowable: an admissible plan.
  • non-contraband — anything prohibited by law from being imported or exported.
  • non-deliberate — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • non-indictable — liable to being indicted, as a person.
  • non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • non-subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
  • noncondensable — lacking the ability to be condensed
  • nonestablished — without the official support of the government
  • nonpredictable — Not predictable.
  • north branford — a town in S Connecticut.
  • northumberland — a county in NE England. 1943 sq. mi. (5030 sq. km).
  • nuts and bolts — the essential or basic aspects: to learn the nuts and bolts of a new job.
  • obedient plant — false dragonhead.
  • oboe da caccia — a member of the oboe family; the predecessor of the cor anglais
  • open to debate — If you say that a matter is open to debate, you mean that people have different opinions about it, or it has not yet been firmly decided.
  • 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.
  • ordinal number — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • outboard motor — a portable gasoline engine with propeller and tiller, clamped on the stern of a boat.
  • over and above — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
  • over sb's head — If someone does something over another person's head, they do it without asking them or discussing it with them, especially when they should do so because the other person is in a position of authority.
  • over-abundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
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