15-letter words containing b, w
- ability to work — A policyholder's ability to work is the degree to which they are able to do a job, as a result of disability.
- above the water — out of trouble or difficulty, esp financial trouble
- abyssinian well — a perforated pipe driven into the ground for pumping out collected ground water; wellpoint.
- acknowledgeable — to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of: to acknowledge one's mistakes.
- acknowledgeably — in a way that is able to be generally acknowledged or recognized
- aerial cableway — a transport system in which cars, buckets, etc run on cables.
- almirante brown — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- backup software — (tool, software) Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
- bait and switch — Bait and switch is used to refer to a sales technique in which goods are advertised at low prices in order to attract customers, although only a small number of the low-priced goods are available.
- bait-and-switch — denoting a deceptive method of selling, by which customers, attracted to a store by sale items, are told either that the advertised bargain item is out of stock or is inferior to a higher-priced item that is available.
- barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
- barracks lawyer — a member of the armed forces who speaks or acts like an authority on military law, regulations, and the rights of service personnel.
- bat-wing sleeve — formed, shaped, etc., like the wing of a bat.
- battle of wills — A battle of wills is a situation that involves people who try to defeat each other by refusing to change their own aims or demands and hoping that their opponents will weaken first.
- be a wake-up to — to be fully alert to (a person, thing, action, etc)
- be carried away — to be moved to great or unreasoning emotion or enthusiasm
- be just as well — If you say that something that has happened is just as well, you mean that it is fortunate that it happened in the way it did.
- be lost without — If you say that you would be lost without someone or something, you mean that you would be unhappy or unable to work properly without them.
- be of two minds — to be undecided or irresolute
- be on one's way — If you are on your way, you have started your journey somewhere.
- be snowed under — to be overwhelmed, esp with paperwork
- beam-power tube — a vacuum tube in which the stream of electrons flowing to the plate is focused by the action of a set of auxiliary, charged elements, giving an increase in output power.
- beat all hollow — to outdo or surpass by far
- beef wellington — a lightly roasted beef fillet covered with pâté de foie gras, wrapped in pastry, and then baked
- before the wind — with the wind coming from astern
- biblical hebrew — the Hebrew language used in the Old Testament. Abbreviation: BiblHeb.
- big white chief — an important person, boss, or leader
- biot-savart law — the law that the magnetic induction near a long, straight conductor, as wire, varies inversely as the distance from the conductor and directly as the intensity of the current in the conductor.
- bird's eye view — You say that you have a bird's eye view of a place when you are looking down at it from a great height, so that you can see a long way but everything looks very small.
- bittersweetness — the quality of being bittersweet
- black and white — In a black and white photograph or film, everything is shown in black, white, and grey.
- black-and-white — displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph.
- blackwall hitch — a knot for hooking tackle to the end of a rope, holding fast when pulled but otherwise loose
- blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
- blended whiskey — whiskey that is a blend of straight whiskey and neutral spirits or of two or more straight whiskeys
- blow one's cool — (of the wind or air) to be in motion.
- blow one's cork — to lose one's temper; become enraged
- blow one's horn — to boast about oneself; brag
- blow one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
- borrower's card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
- bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
- bowstring truss — a structural truss consisting of a curved top chord meeting a bottom chord at each end.
- brand awareness — the extent to which consumers are aware of a particular product or service
- brave new world — If someone refers to a brave new world, they are talking about a situation or system that has recently been created and that people think will be successful and fair.
- breakdown cover — insurance cover against breakdowns in a vehicle
- bronzing powder — the powder used in bronzing, consisting of alloys of bronze or brass
- brown-and-serve — requiring only a brief period of browning, as in an oven, before being ready to serve: brown-and-serve rolls.
- brown-tail moth — a white moth, Nygmia phaerrhoea, having a brown tuft at the end of the abdomen, the larvae of which feed on the foliage of various shade and fruit trees.
- brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
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