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14-letter words containing e, l, d, r

  • 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.
  • bastard ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard turtle — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-ridley — ridley (def 1).
  • bastard-turtle — ridley (def 1).
  • battle-scarred — adversely affected from the experience of battle, or some other traumatic experience
  • 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 lizard — a large Australian lizard, Amphibolurus barbatus, with an erectile frill around the neck
  • bedraggledness — The state or condition of being bedraggled.
  • bend the rules — to ignore rules or change them to suit one's own convenience
  • berkner island — an island in Antarctica, in the S Weddell Sea, between the Ronne Ice Shelf and the Filchner Ice Shelf.
  • bermuda collar — a narrow, pointed collar on a woman's dress or blouse
  • beveridge plan — the plan for comprehensive social insurance, proposed by Sir William Beveridge in Great Britain in 1941.
  • bewilderedness — the state of being bewildered
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • billiard table — the rectangular table used for playing billiards
  • birdcage clock — lantern clock.
  • black redstart — a small, Passerine bird, Phoenicurus ochruros, found in Central and S Europe
  • bladder cancer — any cancer of the bladder
  • bladder ketmia — plant with pale yellow flowers
  • bladder ketmie — flower-of-an-hour
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • bleeding heart — If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help.
  • blessed virgin — the Virgin Mary
  • blind register — (in the United Kingdom) a list of those who are blind and are therefore entitled to financial and other benefits
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • block calendar — a calendar in the form of a block of sheets each printed with the date of one day
  • blood disorder — a medical condition affecting the blood
  • blood pressure — the pressure exerted by the blood on the inner walls of the arteries, being relative to the elasticity and diameter of the vessels and the force of the heartbeat
  • blood relation — A blood relation or blood relative is someone who is related to you by birth rather than by marriage.
  • blue-arsed fly — a blowfly; bluebottle
  • blue-eyed mary — a blue-flowered boraginaceous plant, Omphalodes verna, native to S Europe and cultivated in Britain
  • blurred vision — a condition which makes it impossible to see clearly
  • 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
  • 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 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 value — boundary value analysis
  • bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
  • bras d'or lake — an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in the center Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. 360 sq. mi. (930 sq. km).
  • brazing solder — an alloy of copper and zinc for joining two metal surfaces by melting the alloy so that it forms a thin layer between the surfaces
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • break the mold — If you say that someone breaks the mold, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
  • bridge-builder — a person who attempts to connect or reconcile opposing parties
  • brown bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
  • budget surplus — the amount by which government income from taxation, customs duties, etc, exceeds expenditure in any one fiscal year
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