14-letter words containing t, a, b, r, d
- black redstart — a small, Passerine bird, Phoenicurus ochruros, found in Central and S Europe
- bladder ketmia — plant with pale yellow flowers
- bladder ketmie — flower-of-an-hour
- 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.
- blind staggers — the staggers
- blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
- blood relation — A blood relation or blood relative is someone who is related to you by birth rather than by marriage.
- board of trade — (in the United Kingdom) a ministry within the Department of Trade: responsible for the supervision of commerce and the promotion of export trade
- boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
- boatswain bird — tropic bird.
- body corporate — a group of persons incorporated to carry out a specific enterprise
- bored to death — very weary and lack stimulation
- born yesterday — brought forth by birth.
- botanic garden — a place in which plants are grown, studied, and exhibited
- boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
- brachydactylia — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
- brachydactylic — having abnormally short fingers or toes
- bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
- brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
- bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
- break the mold — If you say that someone breaks the mold, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
- breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- breathe a word — to say something or anything
- 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 daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
- broken-hearted — Someone who is broken-hearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
- brood parasite — a young bird hatched and reared by birds of a different species as a result of brood parasitism.
- bucket brigade — a line of persons passing buckets of water along in trying to put out a fire
- budgetary year — the financial year a budget is drawn up for
- 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.
- carbon trading — Carbon trading is the practice of buying and selling the right to produce carbon dioxide emissions, so that people, countries or companies who use a lot of fuel and electricity can buy rights from those that do not use so much.
- cardboard city — an area of a city in which homeless people sleep rough, often in cardboard boxes
- cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
- cattle breeder — a person who breeds and raises cattle
- celebratedness — the quality or condition of being celebrated
- chartered bank — a privately owned bank that has been incorporated by Parliament to operate in the commercial banking system
- chartered club — a private club licensed to serve alcohol to members
- combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
- containerboard — a form of paperboard, either corrugated or solid, that is used to make containers
- contrabandists — Plural form of contrabandist.
- contradictable — Capable of being contradicted.
- corporate bond — a bond issued by a corporation in order to increase its capital
- court cupboard — a wooden stand with two or three tiers, used in the 16th and 17th centuries to display pewter, silver, etc
- credence table — a small sideboard, originally one at which food was tasted for poison before serving
- credit balance — the amount of money that a client of a financial institution has in his or her account, in securities, etc
- creditableness — The state or quality of being creditable.