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14-letter words containing e, d

  • balance bridge — a bascule bridge
  • balanced valve — a valve designed so that pressure-induced forces from the fluid being controlled oppose one another so that resistance to opening and closing the valve is negligible.
  • ball cartridge — a cartridge containing a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder
  • ballon d'essai — a project or policy put forward experimentally to gauge reactions to it
  • ballroom dance — a social dance, popular since the beginning of the 20th century, in conventional rhythms, such as the foxtrot and the quickstep
  • balm of gilead — any of several trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora, esp C. opobalsamum of Africa and W Asia, that yield a fragrant oily resin
  • balm-of-gilead — any of several plants of the genus Commiphora, especially C. opobalsamum and C. meccanensis, which yield a fragrant oleoresin.
  • bang's disease — a type of infectious brucellosis affecting cattle, caused by a bacterium (Brucella abortus) and often resulting in abortion
  • banker's draft — A banker's draft is the same as a bank draft.
  • banker's order — pay order, banker's cheque
  • barbados earth — a diatomaceous marl found in Barbados
  • barbados pride — Also called bead tree. a tropical African and Asian tree, Adenanthera pavonina, of the legume family, having feathery foliage and bearing red seeds that are used in beadwork.
  • barcode reader — A barcode reader is an electronic scanning machine that reads and sends barcode information.
  • barium sulfide — a gray or yellowish-green, water-soluble, poisonous powder, BaS, used chiefly as a depilatory and as an intermediate in the synthesis of pigments, especially lithopone.
  • barium-hydrate — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • barred warbler — a small passerine songbird, Sylvia nisoria, of the family Muscicapidae
  • barrel-chested — A barrel-chested man has a large, rounded chest.
  • barrier island — a long island, parallel to the coastline, formed from a ridge of sand (barrier beach) thrown up by the waves, that serves the shore as a protective barrier against tidal waves, storms, etc.
  • barrier method — Barrier methods of contraception involve the use of condoms, diaphragms, or other devices that physically prevent the sperm from reaching the egg.
  • bartered bride — a comic opera (1866) by Bedřich Smetana.
  • 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.
  • basidiomycetes — Mycology. any of a group of fungi constituting the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or, in older classification schemes, the class Basidiomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by bearing the spores on a basidium, including the smuts, rust, mushrooms, and puffballs.
  • basket-of-gold — a yellow-flowered perennial plant (Alyssum saxatile, now more properly Aurinia saxatilis) of the crucifer family, often used in rock gardens
  • bastard ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard turtle — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-turtle — ridley (def 1).
  • basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
  • batten disease — a rare hereditary disease in which lipids accumulate in the nervous system, leading to mental deterioration, loss of mobility, and blindness that start in early childhood
  • 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-scarred — adversely affected from the experience of battle, or some other traumatic experience
  • be browned off — to be angry, disgusted, etc.
  • be cursed with — to be afflicted with; suffer from
  • be in bad odor — to be in ill repute
  • be in evidence — If someone or something is in evidence, they are present and can be clearly seen.
  • be of one mind — to have the same opinion or desire
  • 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.
  • beach wormwood — a composite plant, Artemisia stellerana, having yellow flowers and deeply lobed leaves covered with dense white fuzz.
  • bead lightning — lightning in which the intensity appears to vary along the path and which thus resembles a string of beads.
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • bearded collie — a medium-sized breed of dog having a profuse long straight coat, usually grey or fawn and often with white on the head, legs, and chest, a long tail, and a distinctive beard
  • bearded darnel — a grass, Lolium tementulum, related to rye, having bristles on the seed head and bearing seeds that yield a narcotic poison.
  • bearded dragon — a large Australian lizard, Amphibolurus barbatus, with an erectile frill around the neck
  • bearded lizard — a large Australian lizard, Amphibolurus barbatus, with an erectile frill around the neck
  • bedraggledness — The state or condition of being bedraggled.
  • bedroom suburb — a commuter suburb, from which people travel to the city centre to work
  • bedside manner — A doctor's bedside manner is the way in which they talk to their patients.
  • belgian endive — endive (def 2).
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