14-letter words containing b, w
- abraham cowley — Abraham, 1618–67, English poet.
- absorbing well — a well for draining off surface water and conducting it to absorbent earth underground.
- albury-wodonga — a town in SE Australia, in S central New South Wales, on the Murray River: commercial centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 69 880 (2001)
- ambulance crew — the team of people who man an ambulance
- ambulancewoman — a woman who works as part of an ambulance crew
- answerableness — The state or quality of being answerable.
- at one's elbow — within easy reach
- b power supply — Electronics. B supply.
- backflow valve — a valve for preventing flowing liquid, as sewage, from reversing its direction.
- balance weight — a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft
- ballistic wind — a single wind vector that would have the same net effect on the trajectory of a projectile as the varying winds encountered in flight.
- bamboo network — a network of close-knit Chinese entrepreneurs with large corporate empires in southeast Asia
- baptismal vows — the solemn promises made during baptism, either by the person baptized or by his or her sponsors
- bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
- barred warbler — a small passerine songbird, Sylvia nisoria, of the family Muscicapidae
- basotho-qwaqwa — (formerly) a Bantustan in South Africa, in the Orange Free State; the only Bantustan without exclaves: abolished in 1993
- battered woman — See under battered woman syndrome.
- battered-women — the array of physical and psychological injuries exhibited by women (battered women or battered wives) who have been beaten repeatedly or otherwise abused by their partners or spouses.
- battle of wits — If you refer to a situation as a battle of wits, you mean that it involves people with opposing aims who compete with each other using their intelligence, rather than force.
- batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
- be browned off — to be angry, disgusted, etc.
- be cursed with — to be afflicted with; suffer from
- be in the wars — If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident.
- be in the wash — If you say that something such as an item of clothing is in the wash, you mean that it is being washed, is waiting to be washed, or has just been washed and should therefore not be worn or used.
- be struck with — to be attracted to or impressed by
- beach wormwood — a composite plant, Artemisia stellerana, having yellow flowers and deeply lobed leaves covered with dense white fuzz.
- belleek (ware) — a fine, glossy, often iridescent pottery resembling porcelain
- below the belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- below the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- below-the-belt — Something that is below the belt is cruel and unfair.
- below-the-line — denoting the entries printed below the horizontal line on a company's profit-and-loss account that show how any profit is to be distributed
- between whiles — now and then; at intervals
- bewilderedness — the state of being bewildered
- 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.
- black bindweed — a twining polygonaceous European plant, Polygonum convolvulus, with heart-shaped leaves and triangular black seed pods
- black hawk war — a war fought in northern Illinois and present-day southern Wisconsin, 1831–32, in which U.S. regulars and militia with Indian allies defeated the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by Chief Black Hawk, attempting to recover lost hunting grounds.
- blanket-flower — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, having showy heads of yellow or red flowers.
- blow off steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- blow one's lid — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
- blow one's top — to lose one's temper
- boatswain bird — tropic bird.
- bob-a-job week — a week during which boy scouts and cubs formerly raised money for their organizations by doing jobs
- bonded-whiskey — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- book knowledge — theory
- bophuthatswana — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in N South Africa: consisted of six separate areas; declared independent by South Africa in 1977 although this was not internationally recognized; abolished in 1993. Capital: Mmabatho
- borrow trouble — to worry about anything needlessly or before one has sufficient cause
- borrowing rate — the interest rate at which money may be borrowed, esp an official rate set by a central bank
- bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
- bow and scrape — to behave in an excessively deferential or obsequious way
- bowel movement — the discharge of faeces; defecation
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