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14-letter words that end in d

  • 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
  • breathe a word — to say something or anything
  • broken-hearted — Someone who is broken-hearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • broom cupboard — a small cupboard or closet for storing brooms, mops, etc
  • brown bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • burn-in period — 1.   (testing)   A factory soak test intended to increase the chance that components that fail early due to infant mortality will fail before the system leaves the factory. 2.   (jargon)   When one is so intensely involved in a new project that one forgets basic needs such as food, drink and sleep. Excessive burn-in can lead to burn-out. See hack mode, larval stage.
  • burying ground — a burial ground.
  • buteyko method — a breath control technique used to prevent hyperventilation and treat asthma without drugs
  • butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • butterfly weed — a North American asclepiadaceous plant, Asclepias tuberosa (or A. decumbens), having flat-topped clusters of bright orange flowers
  • by the vanload — in very large quantities
  • cacodylic acid — a colorless, crystalline, deliquescent, poisonous solid, (CH 3) 2 AsOOH, used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes and as an herbicide.
  • campeachy wood — wood from the Central American tree Haematoxylon campechianum
  • camphoric acid — a whitish crystallizable substance derived from the oxidization of camphor, used in solution in medicine as an antiseptic. Formula: C10H16O4
  • can ill afford — If you say that someone can ill afford to do something, or can ill afford something, you mean that they must prevent it from happening because it would be harmful or embarrassing to them.
  • capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • catastrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize.
  • cater-cornered — diagonally placed; diagonal
  • catty-cornered — cater-cornered
  • center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • cercopithecoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the primate superfamily Cercopithecoidea (Old World monkeys)
  • cevitamic acid — ascorbic acid
  • chaparral bird — roadrunner.
  • cherry orchard — an orchard planted in cherry trees
  • chickenhearted — timid; fearful; cowardly.
  • chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • christmas card — Christmas cards are cards with greetings, which people send to their friends and family at Christmas.
  • cigarette card — a small picture card, formerly given away with cigarettes, now collected as a hobby
  • circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
  • circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
  • citizens' band — Citizens' Band is a range of radio frequencies which the general public is allowed to use to send messages to each other and is used especially by truck drivers in their vehicles. The abbreviation CB is often used.
  • cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
  • coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
  • coffee-colored — having the medium-brown color of coffee mixed with cream or milk; moderately brown.
  • collateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralise.
  • collateralized — Simple past tense and past participle of collateralize.
  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • come to a head — to be about to discharge pus
  • come to an end — to become completed or exhausted
  • commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
  • commercialized — spoiled by commercial exploitation; degraded
  • common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
  • community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
  • compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
  • compound-wound — noting an electric device in which part of the field circuit is in parallel with the armature circuit and part is in series with it.
  • computer-aided — done or improved by computer
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