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14-letter words containing b, r, i, d, g

  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • badger baiting — an illegal sport in which dogs are encouraged to draw a badger out of its burrow and attack it
  • balance bridge — a bascule bridge
  • ball cartridge — a cartridge containing a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder
  • bascule bridge — a kind of drawbridge counterweighted so that it can be raised and lowered easily
  • bascule-bridge — a device operating like a balance or seesaw, especially an arrangement of a movable bridge (bascule bridge) by which the rising floor or section is counterbalanced by a weight.
  • bastard indigo — a bushy shrub, Amorpha fruticosa, of the legume family, native to North America, having elongated clusters of dull purplish or bluish flowers.
  • basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
  • be riding high — If you say that someone or something is riding high, you mean that they are popular or successful at the present time.
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • beveridge plan — the plan for comprehensive social insurance, proposed by Sir William Beveridge in Great Britain in 1941.
  • bidding prayer — the formal petitionary prayer, said especially in the Anglican Church immediately before the sermon.
  • big red switch — (jargon)   (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • binding energy — the energy that must be supplied to a stable nucleus before it can undergo fission. It is equal to the mass defect
  • binding rafter — a timber for supporting rafters between their extremities, as a purlin.
  • binding strake — a very strong, heavy strake of planking, especially one next to a sheer strake.
  • binge drinking — Binge drinking is the consumption of large amounts of alcohol within a short period of time.
  • biodegradation — to decay and become absorbed by the environment: toys that will biodegrade when they're discarded.
  • birdcage clock — lantern clock.
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
  • blessed virgin — the Virgin Mary
  • blind register — (in the United Kingdom) a list of those who are blind and are therefore entitled to financial and other benefits
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • blood grouping — the ascertainment of a person's blood group
  • blood-curdling — A blood-curdling sound or story is very frightening and horrible.
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
  • bodice-ripping — A bodice-ripping film or novel is one which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes. You use this word especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
  • borders region — a former local government region in S Scotland, formed in 1975 from Berwick, Peebles, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and part of Midlothian; replaced in 1996 by Scottish Borders council area
  • botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
  • brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
  • 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
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
  • 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
  • bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
  • bridge passage — bridge1 (def 7).
  • bridge-builder — a person who attempts to connect or reconcile opposing parties
  • broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
  • brobdingnagian — gigantic; huge; immense
  • brownie guider — the adult leader of a pack of Brownie Guides
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
  • building trade — the economic sector comprising all companies and workers involved in construction
  • building works — construction projects
  • burying ground — a burial ground.
  • butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.

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