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14-letter words containing n, t, e, r

  • auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
  • axis-ordinates — y-axis (def 1).
  • baby-battering — the physical abuse of a baby or young child
  • back to nature — If you want to get back to nature, you want to return to a simpler way of living.
  • backscattering — the scattering of rays or particles at angles to the original direction of motion of greater than 90°
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • bactrian camel — a two-humped camel, Camelus bactrianus, used as a beast of burden in the cold deserts of central Asia
  • badger baiting — an illegal sport in which dogs are encouraged to draw a badger out of its burrow and attack it
  • bamboo network — a network of close-knit Chinese entrepreneurs with large corporate empires in southeast Asia
  • ban-the-bomber — a person who vigorously advocates banning the development or use of nuclear weapons.
  • bancroft prize — one of a group of annual awards for literary achievement in American history and biography: administered by Columbia University.
  • banker's draft — A banker's draft is the same as a bank draft.
  • bargain hunter — A bargain hunter is someone who is looking for goods that are value for money, usually because they are on sale at a lower price than normal.
  • 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
  • basting thread — inexpensive, loosely twisted thread that can be easily pulled out when permanent stitching is in place
  • 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 lantern — a portable, battery-operated light for emergency use aboard a warship.
  • bayonet charge — a charge by riflemen with fixed bayonets
  • be in the wars — If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident.
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • begging letter — A begging letter is a letter from a person or organization in which they ask you to send some money for a particular purpose.
  • belo horizonte — a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)
  • bend the rules — to ignore rules or change them to suit one's own convenience
  • benzanthracene — a carcinogenic hydrocarbon
  • bertrand meyer — The author of the Eiffel Language and many articles on object-oriented software techniques.
  • 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
  • betterment tax — a tax on an increase in the value of property effected by improvement
  • bib and tucker — an outfit of clothes (esp in the phrase best bib and tucker)
  • big government — a form of government characterized by high taxation and public spending and centralization of political power
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • bioprospecting — searching for plant or animal species for use as a source of commercially exploitable products, such as medicinal drugs
  • bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
  • bioremediation — the use of plants to extract heavy metals from contaminated soils and water
  • black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
  • blanket-flower — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, having showy heads of yellow or red flowers.
  • blantyre-limbe — a city in S Malawi: largest city in the country; formed in 1956 from the adjoining towns of Blantyre and Limbe. Pop: 647 000 (2005 est)
  • 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.
  • bletheranskate — a blatherer
  • 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
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