14-letter words that end in t
- beaten biscuit — a hard, unleavened biscuit, made to rise by pounding and folding the dough.
- beauty contest — A beauty contest is a competition in which young women are judged to decide which one is the most beautiful.
- beauty pageant — A beauty pageant is the same as a beauty contest.
- belaying cleat — a cleat used for belaying
- below the belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- below-the-belt — Something that is below the belt is cruel and unfair.
- bending moment — the algebraic sum of all the moments to one side of a cross-section of a beam or other structural support
- benign neglect — If you describe someone's approach to a problem as one of benign neglect, you disapprove of the fact that they are doing nothing and hoping that the problem will solve itself.
- beyond a doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- big government — a form of government characterized by high taxation and public spending and centralization of political power
- biocontainment — the confinement, as by sealed-off chambers, of materials that are harmful or potentially harmful to life.
- bioluminescent — the production of light by living organisms.
- bioregionalist — someone who believes in bioregionalism
- biosystematist — someone who studies or works professionally in the field of biosystematics
- black as night — totally dark
- black redstart — a small, Passerine bird, Phoenicurus ochruros, found in Central and S Europe
- black root rot — any of several diseases of plants characterized by black or brown lesions on the root.
- bleat on about — If you say that someone is bleating on about something, you mean that they are talking about it a great deal in a way which makes them sound weak and irritating.
- 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 as a bat — having extremely poor eyesight
- blood platelet — any of the minute, disklike, colorless elements of the blood that are essential for normal clotting
- body of christ — the Christian Church
- bolshoi ballet — a ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776.
- bottling plant — a factory where drinks are bottled
- bottomless pit — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
- bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
- bowel movement — the discharge of faeces; defecation
- bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
- brazil current — a warm current in the Atlantic Ocean flowing SE along the E coast of Brazil.
- breaking point — If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue.
- breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
- brewer's yeast — a yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, used in brewing
- bridge circuit — any of several networks, such as a Wheatstone bridge, consisting of two branches across which a measuring device is connected. The resistance, capacitance, etc, of one component can be determined from the known values of the others when the voltage in each branch is balanced
- bring to light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- broad daylight — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- broken consort — a musical ensemble with instruments of different types or families, as string and woodwind, especially for Renaissance music.
- brown stem rot — a disease of soybeans, characterized by brown discoloration and decay of internal tissues of the stem and leaf, caused by a fungus, Cephalosporium gregatum.
- budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
- budget deficit — the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year
- builder's knot — clove hitch
- bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
- bull's-eye rot — a disease of apples and pears, characterized by sunken, eyelike spots on the fruit and twig cankers, caused by any of several fungi, especially of the genus Neofabraea.
- burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
- bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
- business agent — a representative of a labor union local, who investigates working conditions, negotiates contracts, etc.
- butterfly knot — a particularly resistant knot which resembles a butterfly and can take loads on both ends, as well as on the loop
- buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
- buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
- by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
- by appointment — If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.