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

  • partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
  • pas de bourree — a short running step.
  • pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
  • periodic table — a table illustrating the periodic system, in which the chemical elements, formerly arranged in the order of their atomic weights and now according to their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups.
  • persian blinds — persiennes
  • pontoon bridge — a bridge supported by pontoons.
  • porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
  • possible world — (in modal logic) a semantic device formalizing the notion of what the world might have been like. A statement is necessarily true if and only if it is true in every possible world
  • prandtl number — the ratio of the fluid viscosity to the thermal conductivity of a substance, a low number indicating high convection.
  • predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
  • preestablished — to establish beforehand.
  • press cupboard — a cupboard of the 16th and 17th centuries having an overhanging top above a recessed cabinet, beneath which is a section of drawers or cabinets.
  • progress board — a department of an organization, company, etc, that oversees and ensures progress, advance or development
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
  • quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
  • quodlibetarian — a person who writes, discusses or engages in quodlibets
  • radiation belt — Van Allen belt.
  • railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
  • rainbow bridge — a natural stone bridge in S Utah: a national monument. 290 feet (88 meters) high; 275 feet (84 meters) span.
  • rainbow darter — a stout darter, Etheostoma caeruleum, inhabiting the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainages, the spawning male of which has the sides marked with oblique blue bars with red interspaces.
  • random numbers — a number chosen by a random sampling, as from a table (random number table) or generated by a computer.
  • re-embroidered — embellished with beads, tiny pearls, ribbon, etc. sewn on, usually by hand: said as of lace for bridal gowns
  • record cabinet — a piece of furniture like a cupboard, designed to hold or display vinyl records stacked on their side
  • record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
  • record-breaker — A record-breaker is someone or something that beats the previous best result in a sport or other activity.
  • red blood cell — Physiology. one of the cells of the blood, which in mammals are enucleate disks concave on both sides, contain hemoglobin, and carry oxygen to the cells and tissues and carbon dioxide back to the respiratory organs. Abbreviation: RBC.
  • red chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
  • redeliberation — careful consideration before decision.
  • redisbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • redistribution — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • redistributive — favoring, supporting, or practicing income redistribution: the redistributive effects of public spending.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • required-cobol — A minimal subset of COBOL developed in 1961. It was later dropped entirely.
  • restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
  • rewardableness — the quality or state of being rewardable
  • ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
  • ribonucleotide — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • rob the cradle — a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
  • rolled tobacco — loose tobacco that is rolled into cigarettes
  • roller bandage — a long bandage rolled into a cylinder
  • round the bend — to force (an object, especially a long or thin one) from a straight form into a curved or angular one, or from a curved or angular form into some different form: to bend an iron rod into a hoop.
  • roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
  • roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
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