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14-letter words containing s, d

  • blow one's lid — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
  • blue-arsed fly — a blowfly; bluebottle
  • blue-eyed soul — soul music written and performed by White singers in a style derived from the blues
  • blurred vision — a condition which makes it impossible to see clearly
  • boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
  • boatswain bird — tropic bird.
  • bobo-dioulasso — a city in W Burkina Faso. Pop: 396 000 (2005 est)
  • body mechanics — body exercises that are intended to improve one's posture, stamina, poise, etc.
  • body of christ — the Christian Church
  • body snatching — the act or practice of robbing a grave to obtain a cadaver for dissection.
  • bonded-whiskey — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • border disease — a congenital infectious disease of sheep and goats caused by a Togavirus and characterized by abortion, infertility, and deformity of lambs
  • border dispute — a disagreement between countries about where the border between them should be drawn
  • borders region — a former local government region in S Scotland, formed in 1975 from Berwick, Peebles, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and part of Midlothian; replaced in 1996 by Scottish Borders council area
  • born yesterday — brought forth by birth.
  • 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 moisture — Bound moisture is liquid in a solid, which exerts a vapor pressure that is less than the pure liquid would do at the same temperature.
  • boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
  • bow and scrape — to behave in an excessively deferential or obsequious way
  • boxed comments — (programming)   Comments that occupy several lines by themselves; so called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style similar to this: /************************************************* * * This is a boxed comment in C style * *************************************************/ Common variants of this style omit the asterisks in column 2 or add a matching row of asterisks closing the right side of the box. The sparest variant omits all but the comment delimiters themselves; the "box" is implied. Opposite of winged comments.
  • braddock hills — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
  • bradford score — a measure of the amount of time during which an employee is absent from work, based on assigning a number of points according to the frequency and length of absences
  • brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
  • bras d'or lake — an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in the center Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. 360 sq. mi. (930 sq. km).
  • 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
  • breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • breeding stock — animals specifically kept to breed from
  • brewer's droop — an inability to get an erection because of excessive alcohol consumption
  • bridge passage — bridge1 (def 7).
  • british dollar — any of several coins formerly issued by the British Empire for use in certain territories, as the Straits dollar or the Hong Kong dollar.
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • brood parasite — a young bird hatched and reared by birds of a different species as a result of brood parasitism.
  • brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
  • budget surplus — the amount by which government income from taxation, customs duties, etc, exceeds expenditure in any one fiscal year
  • builder's knot — clove hitch
  • building works — construction projects
  • bull-nosed bow — a bow having a bulbous forefoot.
  • cadaverousness — of or like a corpse.
  • cahokia mounds — the largest group of prehistoric Indian earthworks in the US, located northeast of East St Louis
  • caicos islands — a group of islands in the Caribbean: part of the British dependency of the Turks and Caicos Islands
  • calculatedness — the state of being calculated
  • caller display — a facility which shows the number of an incoming call
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
  • camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
  • canada thistle — a prickly European weed (Cirsium arvense) of the composite family, with heads of purplish flowers and wavy leaves: now common as a fast-spreading, injurious weed throughout the N U.S.
  • canary islands — a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the NW coast of Africa, forming an Autonomous Community of Spain. Capital: Las Palmas. Pop: 1 944 700 (2003 est)
  • candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
  • capparidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Capparidaceae (or (Capparaceae), a family of plants, mostly shrubs including the caper, of warm tropical regions
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