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14-letter words containing n, o, r

  • ballroom dance — a social dance, popular since the beginning of the 20th century, in conventional rhythms, such as the foxtrot and the quickstep
  • bamboo curtain — (esp in the 1950s and 1960s) the political and military barrier to communications around the People's Republic of China
  • bamboo network — a network of close-knit Chinese entrepreneurs with large corporate empires in southeast Asia
  • bamboo turning — turning of spindles and framing members to simulate the jointing of bamboo.
  • ban-the-bomber — a person who vigorously advocates banning the development or use of nuclear weapons.
  • banana problem — (programming, humour)   From the story of the little girl who said "I know how to spell "banana", but I don't know when to stop". Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare fencepost error). One may say "there is a banana problem" of an algorithm with poorly defined or incorrect termination conditions, or in discussing the evolution of a design that may be succumbing to featuritis (see also creeping elegance, creeping featuritis).
  • bancroft prize — one of a group of annual awards for literary achievement in American history and biography: administered by Columbia University.
  • bang to rights — caught red-handed
  • banker's order — pay order, banker's cheque
  • baranof island — an island off SE Alaska, in the western part of the Alexander Archipelago. Area: 4162 sq km (1607 sq miles)
  • barber-surgeon — (formerly) a barber practicing surgery and dentistry.
  • bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
  • barnacle goose — a N European goose, Branta leucopsis, that has a black-and-white head and body and grey wings
  • baroja y nessi — Pío [pee-oh;; Spanish pee-aw] /ˈpi oʊ;; Spanish ˈpi ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1872–1956, Spanish novelist.
  • barong tagalog — (in the Philippines) a man's long-sleeved formal overblouse, made of fine, sheer fabric, often embroidered.
  • basque country — Theregion comprising three provinces in N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay, inhabited by Basques: 2,803 sq mi (7,260 sq km); pop. 2,104,000
  • basso profundo — (esp in operatic solo singing) a singer with a very deep bass voice
  • bastard indigo — a bushy shrub, Amorpha fruticosa, of the legume family, native to North America, having elongated clusters of dull purplish or bluish flowers.
  • bastardisation — Alternative form of bastardization.
  • bastardization — the act of bastardizing
  • 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.
  • bayonet charge — a charge by riflemen with fixed bayonets
  • bazillionaires — Plural form of bazillionaire.
  • be borne in on — (of a fact) to be realized by (someone)
  • be browned off — to be angry, disgusted, etc.
  • be gagging for — to be very eager to have or do something
  • be in bad odor — to be in ill repute
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • bearded dragon — a large Australian lizard, Amphibolurus barbatus, with an erectile frill around the neck
  • belo horizonte — a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)
  • benday process — a process for adding tone or shading, as in reproducing drawings, by the overlay on the plate of patterns, as of dots
  • bernicle goose — barnacle goose
  • beta geminorum — Pollux
  • 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.
  • betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
  • beyond compare — If you describe something as beyond compare, you mean that it is extremely good or extremely great.
  • 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.
  • big government — a form of government characterized by high taxation and public spending and centralization of political power
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • binary counter — (electronics, hardware)   A digital circuit which has a clock input and a number of count outputs which give the number of clock cycles. The output may change either on rising or falling clock edges. The circuit may also have a reset input which sets all outputs to zero when asserted. The counter may be either a synchronous counter or a ripple counter.
  • binary fission — asexual reproduction in unicellular organisms by division into two daughter cells
  • bioaeronautics — the use of aircraft in the discovery, development, and protection of natural and biological resources
  • biocybernetics — the branch of cybernetics that deals with the control and communication systems of living organisms
  • biodegradation — to decay and become absorbed by the environment: toys that will biodegrade when they're discarded.
  • bioelectronics — a branch of electronics that deals with electronic devices, implants, etc. used in medicine and biological research
  • bioengineering — People sometimes use bioengineering to talk about genetic engineering.
  • bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information
  • bioprospecting — searching for plant or animal species for use as a source of commercially exploitable products, such as medicinal drugs
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