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14-letter words containing b, o, i, s, e, r

  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
  • brecknockshire — a historic county in S Wales, now part of Powys, Gwent, and Mid Glamorgan.
  • breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
  • bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
  • bring to terms — to reduce to submission; force to agree
  • british legion — (in Britain) a national social club for veterans of the armed forces.
  • broken society — a perceived or apparent general decline in moral values
  • 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.
  • brownie points — a credit toward advancement or good standing gained especially by currying favor.
  • builder's knot — clove hitch
  • business hours — Business hours are the hours of the day in which a shop or a company is open for business.
  • businessperson — Businesspeople are people who work in business.
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • colorblindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
  • comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
  • cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
  • cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
  • defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
  • dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
  • erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
  • folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
  • foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
  • 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.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • heath robinson — (of a mechanical device) absurdly complicated in design and having a simple function
  • impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
  • inboard brakes — Inboard brakes are brakes located close to the center of the vehicle rather than at the wheel hub.
  • incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
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