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14-letter words containing on

  • back o' beyond — remote; out-of-the-way; isolated.
  • back of beyond — a very remote place
  • back-formation — the analogical creation of one word from another word that appears to be a derived or inflected form of the first by dropping the apparent affix or by modification.
  • backbone cabal — (networking)   A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of Usenet during most of the 1980s. The cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 after a bitter internal cat-fight.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • ballon d'essai — a project or policy put forward experimentally to gauge reactions to it
  • balloon sleeve — a sleeve fitting tightly from wrist to elbow and becoming fully rounded from elbow to shoulder
  • balto-slavonic — a hypothetical subfamily of Indo-European languages consisting of Baltic and Slavonic. It is now generally believed that similarities between them result from geographical proximity rather than any special relationship
  • baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
  • barber-surgeon — (formerly) a barber practicing surgery and dentistry.
  • barong tagalog — (in the Philippines) a man's long-sleeved formal overblouse, made of fine, sheer fabric, often embroidered.
  • basal ganglion — any of several masses of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere.
  • base component — the system of rules in a transformational grammar that specify the deep structure of the language
  • bass saxophone — a large saxophone of low range, usually supported on a stand while being played.
  • basso continuo — continuo.
  • bastardisation — Alternative form of bastardization.
  • bastardization — the act of bastardizing
  • battle station — the place or position that one is assigned to for battle or in an emergency.
  • bayonet charge — a charge by riflemen with fixed bayonets
  • bayonet socket — a socket for a bayonet fitting
  • bazillionaires — Plural form of bazillionaire.
  • be borne in on — (of a fact) to be realized by (someone)
  • be of one mind — to have the same opinion or desire
  • be on the ball — to be alert; be efficient
  • bearded dragon — a large Australian lizard, Amphibolurus barbatus, with an erectile frill around the neck
  • beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
  • beauty contest — A beauty contest is a competition in which young women are judged to decide which one is the most beautiful.
  • beclomethasone — a potent synthetic corticosteroid, C 28 H 37 ClO 7 , prepared as an inhalant in the treatment of bronchial asthma.
  • belisha beacon — a flashing light in an orange globe mounted on a post, indicating a pedestrian crossing on a road
  • belo horizonte — a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)
  • beside oneself — If you are beside yourself with anger or excitement, you are extremely angry or excited.
  • beta reduction — [lambda-calculus] The application of a lambda abstraction to an argument expression. A copy of the body of the lambda abstraction is made and occurrences of the bound variable being replaced by the argument. E.g. (\ x . x+1) 4 --> 4+1 Beta reduction is the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus. The opposite of beta reduction is beta abstraction. These are the two kinds of beta conversion. See also name capture.
  • beta-oxidation — a process by which fatty acids are degraded, involving oxidation of the beta carbons and removal of successive two-carbon fragments from the fatty acid.
  • betake oneself — to go; move
  • betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
  • beyond a doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
  • beyond compare — If you describe something as beyond compare, you mean that it is extremely good or extremely great.
  • beyond dispute — not open to dispute or question; settled
  • beyond measure — If you say that something has changed or that it has affected you beyond measure, you are emphasizing that it has done this to a great extent.
  • bight of bonny — a wide bay at the E end of the Gulf of Guinea off the coasts of Nigeria and Cameroon
  • binary fission — asexual reproduction in unicellular organisms by division into two daughter cells
  • bioaeronautics — the use of aircraft in the discovery, development, and protection of natural and biological resources
  • biocontainment — the confinement, as by sealed-off chambers, of materials that are harmful or potentially harmful to life.
  • biodegradation — to decay and become absorbed by the environment: toys that will biodegrade when they're discarded.
  • bioelectronics — a branch of electronics that deals with electronic devices, implants, etc. used in medicine and biological research
  • bioregionalism — the conviction that environmental and social policies should be determined by the bioregion rather than economics or politics
  • bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
  • bioremediation — the use of plants to extract heavy metals from contaminated soils and water
  • bipolarisation — the act of bipolarising
  • bipolarization — the action of rendering something bipolar
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