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14-letter words containing b, r, e, c

  • branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
  • brass knuckles — linked metal rings or a metal bar with holes for the fingers, worn for rough fighting
  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • brazil current — a warm current in the Atlantic Ocean flowing SE along the E coast of Brazil.
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
  • brecknockshire — a historic county in S Wales, now part of Powys, Gwent, and Mid Glamorgan.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
  • brewster chair — a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.
  • bridge circuit — any of several networks, such as a Wheatstone bridge, consisting of two branches across which a measuring device is connected. The resistance, capacitance, etc, of one component can be determined from the known values of the others when the voltage in each branch is balanced
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • broken consort — a musical ensemble with instruments of different types or families, as string and woodwind, especially for Renaissance music.
  • broken society — a perceived or apparent general decline in moral values
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
  • brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
  • brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
  • bubble chamber — a device that enables the tracks of ionizing particles to be photographed as a row of bubbles in a superheated liquid. Immediately before the particles enter the chamber the pressure is reduced so that the ionized particles act as centres for small vapour bubbles
  • buchner funnel — a laboratory filter funnel used under reduced pressure. It consists of a shallow porcelain cylinder with a flat perforated base
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • bull stretcher — Also called bullnose stretcher. a brick having one of the edges along its length rounded for laying as a stretcher in a sill or the like.
  • bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
  • burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
  • bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
  • butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
  • butter brickle — an ice-cream flavor, usually vanilla or butterscotch, containing crunchy bits of butterscotch candy.
  • cabbage looper — the larva of a noctuid moth, Trichoplusia ni, common throughout the U.S. and Canada, that feeds on a wide variety of vegetable crops, especially cabbage and lettuce.
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • calamine brass — an alloy of zinc carbonate and copper, formerly used to imitate gold.
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
  • camera obscura — a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
  • carbon capture — the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change
  • carbon dioxide — Carbon dioxide is a gas. It is produced by animals and people breathing out, and by chemical reactions.
  • carbon neutral — A carbon neutral lifestyle, company, or activity does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
  • carbon process — a photographic process for producing positive prints by exposing sensitized carbon tissue to light passing through a negative. Washing removes the unexposed gelatine leaving the pigmented image in the exposed insoluble gelatine
  • carbon-neutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • carbonate rock — Carbonate rock is a sedimentary rock which is composed mainly of calcium carbonate (CaCO₃).
  • carbro process — a process for making carbon or pigment prints on bromide paper without exposure to light.
  • carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • carrara marble — a white or blue-gray marble quarried at Carrara, Italy.
  • carrion beetle — any beetle of the family Silphidae that track carrion by a keen sense of smell
  • carry the ball — to assume responsibility; take command
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
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