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14-letter words containing r, i, d, l, e

  • blessed virgin — the Virgin Mary
  • 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
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • blood disorder — a medical condition affecting the blood
  • blood relation — A blood relation or blood relative is someone who is related to you by birth rather than by marriage.
  • blurred vision — a condition which makes it impossible to see clearly
  • bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
  • bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
  • 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
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
  • bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
  • bridge-builder — a person who attempts to connect or reconcile opposing parties
  • builder's knot — clove hitch
  • 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
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
  • cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
  • cardinal tetra — a small, brilliantly colored red and blue characin fish, Paracheirodon axelrodi, native to tropical forest streams in Brazil and Colombia: a popular aquarium fish.
  • cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • cartridge clip — a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm
  • casserole dish — cooking pot for oven or hob
  • cathedral city — a city that has a cathedral
  • cellular radio — radio communication based on a network of transmitters each serving a small area known as a cell: used in personal communications systems in which the mobile receiver switches frequencies automatically as it passes from one cell to another
  • center fielder — the player whose position is center field.
  • certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
  • certified milk — milk that is processed according to the sanitation standards in the area in which it is sold
  • charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
  • charmed circle — If you refer to a group of people as a charmed circle, you mean that they seem to have special power or influence, and do not allow anyone else to join their group.
  • checkered lily — a lily, Fritillaria meleagris, native to Europe, having solitary, checkered, red-purple flowers mottled with greenish yellow.
  • chicken ladder — an inclined plank with transverse cleats.
  • child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
  • childbed fever — puerperal fever.
  • children's day — the second Sunday in June, celebrated by Protestant churches with special programs for children: first started in the U.S. in 1868.
  • chiller-diller — chiller (def 2).
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • chloride paper — a relatively slow printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride: used mostly for contact prints.
  • chlorothiazide — a diuretic drug administered orally in the treatment of chronic heart and kidney disease and hypertension. Formula: C7H6ClN3O4S2
  • chlorpropamide — a sulfonylurea drug that reduces blood glucose and is administered orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Formula: C10H13ClN2O3S
  • chlorthalidone — a diuretic used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and hypertension
  • choroid plexus — a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid
  • circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
  • clairaudiently — in a clairaudient manner
  • clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
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