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

  • 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.
  • basic industry — an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy
  • basso profundo — (esp in operatic solo singing) a singer with a very deep bass voice
  • bastard turtle — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-turtle — ridley (def 1).
  • berberidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Berberidaceae, a mainly N temperate family of flowering plants (mostly shrubs), including barberry and barrenwort
  • bermuda collar — a narrow, pointed collar on a woman's dress or blouse
  • bermuda cutter — a marconi-rigged cutter.
  • bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
  • beta reduction — [lambda-calculus] The application of a lambda abstraction to an argument expression. A copy of the body of the lambda abstraction is made and occurrences of the bound variable being replaced by the argument. E.g. (\ x . x+1) 4 --> 4+1 Beta reduction is the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus. The opposite of beta reduction is beta abstraction. These are the two kinds of beta conversion. See also name capture.
  • beyond measure — If you say that something has changed or that it has affected you beyond measure, you are emphasizing that it has done this to a great extent.
  • bib and tucker — an outfit of clothes (esp in the phrase best bib and tucker)
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • bird sanctuary — an area of land in which birds are protected and encouraged to breed
  • blue-arsed fly — a blowfly; bluebottle
  • blue-eyed mary — a blue-flowered boraginaceous plant, Omphalodes verna, native to S Europe and cultivated in Britain
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • boulder canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, above Boulder Dam.
  • bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
  • boundary fence — a fence between properties
  • boundary layer — the layer of fluid closest to the surface of a solid past which the fluid flows: it has a lower rate of flow than the bulk of the fluid because of its adhesion to the solid
  • boundary rider — an employee on a sheep or cattle station whose job is to maintain fences in good repair and to prevent stock from straying
  • boundary value — boundary value analysis
  • boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • broom cupboard — a small cupboard or closet for storing brooms, mops, etc
  • brown bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
  • bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
  • budgetary year — the financial year a budget is drawn up for
  • 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.
  • cadaverousness — of or like a corpse.
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
  • cape girardeau — a city in SE Missouri, on the Mississippi River.
  • cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
  • capparidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Capparidaceae (or (Capparaceae), a family of plants, mostly shrubs including the caper, of warm tropical regions
  • card catalogue — a catalogue of books, papers, etc, filed on cards
  • cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
  • cardiac output — blood volume in liters pumped by the left ventricle of the heart per minute.
  • cardiovascular — of the heart and the blood vessels as a unified body system
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • cathedral hull — a motorboat hull having a bottom characterized by two or more, usually three, V -shaped hull profiles meeting below the waterline.
  • cellular radio — radio communication based on a network of transmitters each serving a small area known as a cell: used in personal communications systems in which the mobile receiver switches frequencies automatically as it passes from one cell to another
  • cerro de punta — a mountain in central Puerto Rico: highest peak on the island. 4389 feet (1339 meters).
  • chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
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