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15-letter words containing e, n, r, o

  • baconian theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Francis Bacon.
  • balance control — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
  • balloon barrage — a series of moored balloons, usually strung together and hung with cables, for impeding a low-level attack by enemy aircraft.
  • ballroom dancer — a person who participates in ballroom dancing
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bar examination — a written examination to determine if one is qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.
  • barcelona chair — an armless, padded leather chair on a steel frame shaped like a curved X: Barcelona is a trademark for this chair
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • barn conversion — the adaptation of a farm barn into a building serving a different use, such as a house or commercial premises
  • barn-door skate — an Atlantic skate, Raja laevis, that grows to a length of 4 feet (1.2 meters) or more.
  • barrage balloon — Barrage balloons are large balloons which are fixed to the ground by strong steel cables. They are used in wartime, when the cables are intended to destroy low-flying enemy aircraft.
  • basse-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: consists of the Cherbourg peninsula in the west rising to the Normandy hills in the east; mainly agricultural
  • be raring to go — If you say that you are raring to go, you mean that you are very eager to start doing something.
  • be short on sth — If someone or something is short on a particular good quality, they do not have as much of it as you think they should have.
  • be snowed under — to be overwhelmed, esp with paperwork
  • be spoiling for — to have an aggressive desire for (a fight, etc)
  • beach goldenrod — a composite plant, Solidago sempervirens, of eastern and southern North America, having a thick stem and large, branched, one-sided terminal clusters of yellow flowers, flourishing on sea beaches or salt marshes.
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • beast of burden — A beast of burden is an animal such as an ox or a donkey that is used for carrying or pulling things.
  • beat generation — members of the generation that came to maturity in the 1950s, whose rejection of the social and political systems of the West was expressed through contempt for regular work, possessions, traditional dress, etc, and espousal of anarchism, communal living, drugs, etc
  • beef stroganoff — a dish of thin strips of beef cooked with onions, mushrooms, and seasonings, served in a sour-cream sauce
  • before the wind — with the wind coming from astern
  • belgian griffon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a black or reddish-brown and black coat.
  • belief revision — (artificial intelligence)   The area of theory change in which preservation of the information in the theory to be changed plays a key role. A fundamental issue in belief revision is how to decide what information to retract in order to maintain consistency, when the addition of a new belief to a theory would make it inconsistent. Usually, an ordering on the sentences of the theory is used to determine priorities among sentences, so that those with lower priority can be retracted. This ordering can be difficult to generate and maintain. The postulates of the AGM Theory for Belief Revision describe minimal properties a revision process should have.
  • bello horizonte — a city in SE Brazil.
  • ben day process — a method of adding texture, shading, or detail to line drawings by overlaying a transparent sheet of dots or any other pattern during platemaking
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • benefit concert — a concert to raise money for charity
  • benzal chloride — a colorless, oily liquid, C 7 H 6 Cl 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of benzaldehyde, and in the manufacture of dyes.
  • benzyl chloride — a colorless, corrosive liquid, C 7 H 7 Cl, used chiefly as an intermediate in the synthesis of benzyl compounds.
  • benzyl fluoride — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 7 F, used in organic synthesis.
  • bergamot orange — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
  • bernoulli trial — one of a sequence of independent experiments each of which has the same probability of success, such as successive throws of a die, the outcome of which is described by a binomial distribution
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • beurre noisette — a sauce of butter cooked until golden or nut brown, sometimes flavored with capers, vinegar, herbs, etc.
  • bicycle touring — the activity of touring on a bicycle
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • big bang theory — In astronomy the big bang theory is a theory that suggests that the universe was created as a result of an extremely large explosion.
  • binomial series — an infinite series obtained by expanding a binomial raised to a power that is not a positive integer.
  • bits per second — (communications, unit)   (bps, b/s) The unit in which data rate is measured. For example, a modem's data rate is usually measured in kilobits per second. In 1996, the maximum modem speed for use on the PSTN was 33.6 kbps, rising to 56 kbps in 1997. Note that kilo- (k), mega- (M), etc. in data rates denote powers of 1000, not 1024.
  • black horehound — a hairy unpleasant-smelling chiefly Mediterranean plant, Ballota nigra, having clusters of purple flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blenheim orange — a type of apple tree bearing gold-coloured apples
  • blockade runner — a person, ship etc that tries to carry goods through a blockade
  • blockade-runner — a ship or person that passes through a blockade.
  • blossom-end rot — a disease of tomato and pepper caused by a deficiency of calcium, characterized by decay at the blossom end of the fruit.
  • blow one's cork — to lose one's temper; become enraged
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