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14-letter words containing n, a, d, e, r, i

  • antidiarrhoeal — a drug used to prevent or treat diarrhoea
  • antifederalism — Alternative form of anti-federalism.
  • antifederalist — a person who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 and thereafter allied with Thomas Jefferson's Antifederal Party, which opposed extension of the powers of the federal Government
  • apple islander — a native or inhabitant of Tasmania
  • arabian desert — a desert in E Egypt, between the Nile, the Gulf of Suez, and the Red Sea: mountainous parts rise over 1800 m (6000 ft). Area: about 220 000 sq km (85 000 sq miles)
  • archidiaconate — the office, term of office, or area of jurisdiction of an archdeacon
  • archimandrites — Plural form of archimandrite.
  • ardent spirits — spirits, such as rum, whisky, etc
  • arrondissement — the largest administrative subdivision of a department
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
  • audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
  • auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
  • austrian shade — a window shade in which the fabric falls in a series of puffy festoons created by vertical rows of shirring.
  • axis-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • badger baiting — an illegal sport in which dogs are encouraged to draw a badger out of its burrow and attack it
  • balance bridge — a bascule bridge
  • 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.
  • basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
  • be in bad odor — to be in ill repute
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • bedside manner — A doctor's bedside manner is the way in which they talk to their patients.
  • berkner island — an island in Antarctica, in the S Weddell Sea, between the Ronne Ice Shelf and the Filchner Ice Shelf.
  • 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.
  • beta-endorphin — a potent endorphin released by the anterior pituitary gland in response to pain, trauma, exercise, or other forms of stress.
  • beveridge plan — the plan for comprehensive social insurance, proposed by Sir William Beveridge in Great Britain in 1941.
  • bib and tucker — an outfit of clothes (esp in the phrase best bib and tucker)
  • bidding prayer — the formal petitionary prayer, said especially in the Anglican Church immediately before the sermon.
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • binding rafter — a timber for supporting rafters between their extremities, as a purlin.
  • binding strake — a very strong, heavy strake of planking, especially one next to a sheer strake.
  • biodegradation — to decay and become absorbed by the environment: toys that will biodegrade when they're discarded.
  • bioremediation — the use of plants to extract heavy metals from contaminated soils and water
  • birds and bees — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • 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.
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • blood relation — A blood relation or blood relative is someone who is related to you by birth rather than by marriage.
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
  • bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
  • 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
  • branched chain — an open chain of atoms with one or more side chains attached to it
  • brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
  • 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
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • 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
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