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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.
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