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14-letter words containing d, a, r, b

  • 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
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • 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)
  • carbon dioxide — Carbon dioxide is a gas. It is produced by animals and people breathing out, and by chemical reactions.
  • carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
  • cardboard city — an area of a city in which homeless people sleep rough, often in cardboard boxes
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • cattle breeder — a person who breeds and raises cattle
  • celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
  • chaparral bird — roadrunner.
  • chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
  • chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
  • chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • ciudad bolivar — a port in E Venezuela, on the Orinoco River: accessible to ocean-going vessels. Pop: 344 000 (2005 est)
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
  • combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
  • comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
  • containerboard — a form of paperboard, either corrugated or solid, that is used to make containers
  • contrabandists — Plural form of contrabandist.
  • contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.
  • corporate bond — a bond issued by a corporation in order to increase its capital
  • court cupboard — a wooden stand with two or three tiers, used in the 16th and 17th centuries to display pewter, silver, etc
  • crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
  • credence table — a small sideboard, originally one at which food was tasted for poison before serving
  • credit balance — the amount of money that a client of a financial institution has in his or her account, in securities, etc
  • creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.
  • cribbage board — a board, with pegs and holes, used for scoring at cribbage
  • crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • cyberchondriac — A hypochondriac who researches his/her potential medical condition on the Internet.
  • cyberdemocracy — Democracy as facilitated by the Internet or cyberspace.
  • daniel websterDaniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
  • darby and joan — an ideal elderly married couple living in domestic harmony
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • deadly embrace — deadlock
  • debt repayment — the action of repaying debts, or a single payment made to wards paying off a debt
  • decarboxylases — Plural form of decarboxylase.
  • defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
  • defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
  • defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
  • deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
  • deliberateness — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
  • deliverability — capable of delivery.
  • demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
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