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

  • broken pediment — a pediment, as over a doorway or window, having its raking cornice interrupted at the crown or apex.
  • bronze diabetes — hemochromatosis.
  • bronzed grackle — the western subspecies of the American bird, the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula versicolor, having bronzy, iridescent plumage.
  • bronzing powder — the powder used in bronzing, consisting of alloys of bronze or brass
  • brooklyn bridge — a suspension bridge over the East River, in New York City, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn: built 1867–84. 5989 feet (1825 meters) long.
  • brown-and-serve — requiring only a brief period of browning, as in an oven, before being ready to serve: brown-and-serve rolls.
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • buffalo soldier — (formerly, especially among American Indians) a black soldier.
  • building worker — a labourer, bricklayer, etc who works in the construction industry
  • bulldog edition — the early edition of a morning newspaper, chiefly for out-of-town distribution
  • bullnose header — bull header (def 1).
  • bullnose-header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • burden of proof — The burden of proof is the task of proving that you are correct, for example when you have accused someone of a crime.
  • business double — a double made to increase the penalty points earned when a player believes the opponents cannot make their bid.
  • carbon monoxide — Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that is produced especially by the engines of vehicles.
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
  • chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
  • chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
  • cinderella book — (publication)   "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
  • color blindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • colorado beetle — a black-and-yellow beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, that is a serious pest of potatoes, feeding on the leaves: family Chrysomelidae
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • commendableness — The state or quality of being commendable.
  • compound number — a quantity expressed in two or more different but related units
  • contract bridge — the most common variety of bridge, in which the declarer receives points counting towards game and rubber only for tricks he bids as well as makes, any overtricks receiving bonus points
  • coordinate bond — a type of covalent chemical bond in which both the shared electrons are provided by one of the atoms
  • copper-bottomed — If you describe something as copper-bottomed, you believe that it is certain to be successful.
  • corps de ballet — In ballet, the corps de ballet is the group of dancers who dance together, in contrast to the main dancers, who dance by themselves.
  • counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • coureur de bois — a French Canadian woodsman or Métis who traded with Native Americans for furs
  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • credit mobilier — a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
  • d. c. power lab — The former site of SAIL. This name was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent - the lab was named after a Donald C. Power. Compare Marginal Hacks.
  • davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
  • de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
  • dead letter box — a place where messages and other material can be left and collected secretly without the sender and the recipient meeting
  • dead-cat bounce — a temporary recovery in prices following a substantial fall as a result of speculators buying stocks they have already sold rather than as a result of a genuine reversal of the downward trend
  • debathification — The process of removing former members of the ruling Bath party of Iraq from the military and civil office following the ousting of w Saddam Hussein.
  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • deception table — a table of the 18th century made so as to conceal its true function, as in serving as a cabinet for a chamber pot.
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
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