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14-letter words containing ea

  • bavarian cream — a cold dessert consisting of a rich custard set with gelatine and flavoured in various ways
  • beach barbecue — a barbecue on a beach
  • beach umbrella — a large umbrella used as a sunshade on the beach
  • beach wormwood — a composite plant, Artemisia stellerana, having yellow flowers and deeply lobed leaves covered with dense white fuzz.
  • bead lightning — lightning in which the intensity appears to vary along the path and which thus resembles a string of beads.
  • bean bag chair — a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.
  • bean-bag chair — a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • bearded collie — a medium-sized breed of dog having a profuse long straight coat, usually grey or fawn and often with white on the head, legs, and chest, a long tail, and a distinctive beard
  • bearded darnel — a grass, Lolium tementulum, related to rye, having bristles on the seed head and bearing seeds that yield a narcotic poison.
  • bearded dragon — a large Australian lizard, Amphibolurus barbatus, with an erectile frill around the neck
  • bearded lizard — a large Australian lizard, Amphibolurus barbatus, with an erectile frill around the neck
  • bearer channel — (communications)   Originally, a channel suited for carrying one voice-grade connection. Typically a DS0 channel. Compare data channel. (1997-03-7)
  • beat a retreat — to withdraw or depart in haste
  • beaten biscuit — a hard, unleavened biscuit, made to rise by pounding and folding the dough.
  • beaufort scale — an international scale of wind velocities ranging for practical purposes from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane force). In the US an extension of the scale, from 13 to 17 for winds over 64 knots, is used
  • 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.
  • beauty culture — the skill or occupation of a beautician
  • beauty pageant — A beauty pageant is the same as a beauty contest.
  • beauty parlour — A beauty parlour is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example to have their hair, nails or make-up done.
  • belaying cleat — a cleat used for belaying
  • belisha beacon — a flashing light in an orange globe mounted on a post, indicating a pedestrian crossing on a road
  • 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.
  • bill of health — a certificate, issued by a port officer, that attests to the health of a ship's company
  • black bullhead — a common freshwater catfish, Ictalurus melas, of North America, considered by some to be a food delicacy.
  • black sea bass — an American coastal percoid fish, Centropristes striatus, having an elongated body with a long spiny dorsal fin almost divided into two
  • black-eyed pea — Black-eyed peas are beige seeds with black marks that are eaten as a vegetable. They are from a plant called the cowpea.
  • blade-shearing — the shearing of sheep using hand shears
  • 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.
  • blow off steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
  • body beautiful — a beautiful body
  • boolean search — (information science)   (Or "Boolean query") A query using the Boolean operators, AND, OR, and NOT, and parentheses to construct a complex condition from simpler criteria. A typical example is searching for combinatons of keywords on a web search engine. Examples: car or automobile "New York" and not "New York state" The term is sometimes stretched to include searches using other operators, e.g. "near". Not to be confused with binary search. See also: weighted search.
  • border disease — a congenital infectious disease of sheep and goats caused by a Togavirus and characterized by abortion, infertility, and deformity of lambs
  • bored to death — very weary and lack stimulation
  • bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
  • bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
  • break of serve — the act or instance of breaking an opponent's service
  • break the bank — to ruin financially or deplete the resources of a bank (as in gambling)
  • 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.
  • break the news — announce sth
  • break-up value — the value of an organization assuming that it will not continue to trade
  • breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
  • breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
  • breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
  • breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
  • breakfast time — Breakfast time is the period of the morning when most people have their breakfast.
  • 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
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