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14-letter words containing nd

  • back of beyond — a very remote place
  • back-and-forth — backward and forward; side to side; to and fro: a back-and-forth shuttling of buses to the stadium; the back-and-forth movement of a clock's pendulum.
  • backhandedness — The quality of being backhanded; the use of indirect tactics.
  • ball and chain — (formerly) a heavy iron ball attached to a chain and fastened to a prisoner
  • ball indicator — a flight instrument that measures the angle of roll about an aircraft's horizontal axis, thereby indicating whether or not the aircraft is skidding or slipping.
  • ball-and-chain — a heavy iron ball fastened by a chain to a prisoner's leg.
  • ballistic wind — a single wind vector that would have the same net effect on the trajectory of a projectile as the varying winds encountered in flight.
  • bandar lampung — a port in Indonesia, in S Sumatra on the Sunda Strait; formed by merging the cities of Tanjungkarang and Telukbetung, and sometimes still referred to as Tanjungkarang-Telukbetung. Pop: 742 749 (2000)
  • baranof island — an island off SE Alaska, in the western part of the Alexander Archipelago. Area: 4162 sq km (1607 sq miles)
  • barrier island — a long island, parallel to the coastline, formed from a ridge of sand (barrier beach) thrown up by the waves, that serves the shore as a protective barrier against tidal waves, storms, etc.
  • basic industry — an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy
  • basso profundo — (esp in operatic solo singing) a singer with a very deep bass voice
  • bastard indigo — a bushy shrub, Amorpha fruticosa, of the legume family, native to North America, having elongated clusters of dull purplish or bluish flowers.
  • be of one mind — to have the same opinion or desire
  • belgian endive — endive (def 2).
  • belgian-endive — endive (def 2).
  • bend the rules — to ignore rules or change them to suit one's own convenience
  • benday process — a process for adding tone or shading, as in reproducing drawings, by the overlay on the plate of patterns, as of dots
  • bending moment — the algebraic sum of all the moments to one side of a cross-section of a beam or other structural support
  • berkner island — an island in Antarctica, in the S Weddell Sea, between the Ronne Ice Shelf and the Filchner Ice Shelf.
  • bertrand meyer — The author of the Eiffel Language and many articles on object-oriented software techniques.
  • beta-endorphin — a potent endorphin released by the anterior pituitary gland in response to pain, trauma, exercise, or other forms of stress.
  • 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.
  • bib and tucker — an outfit of clothes (esp in the phrase best bib and tucker)
  • binding energy — the energy that must be supplied to a stable nucleus before it can undergo fission. It is equal to the mass defect
  • binding handle — (networking)   An identifier representing the connection between a client and server. An association between client/server end-points and protocols.
  • binding rafter — a timber for supporting rafters between their extremities, as a purlin.
  • binding strake — a very strong, heavy strake of planking, especially one next to a sheer strake.
  • birds and bees — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • black and blue — discolored, as by bruising; exhibiting ecchymosis: a black-and-blue mark on my knee.
  • black and tans — Usually, Black and Tans. an armed force of about 6000 soldiers sent by the British government to Ireland in June, 1920, to suppress revolutionary activity: so called from the colors of their uniform.
  • black bindweed — a twining polygonaceous European plant, Polygonum convolvulus, with heart-shaped leaves and triangular black seed pods
  • black diamonds — carbonado1 .
  • black-and-blue — (of the skin) discoloured, as from a bruise
  • blended family — a social unit consisting of two previously married parents and the children of their former marriages
  • blind as a bat — having extremely poor eyesight
  • blind register — (in the United Kingdom) a list of those who are blind and are therefore entitled to financial and other benefits
  • blind staggers — the staggers
  • blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
  • block calendar — a calendar in the form of a block of sheets each printed with the date of one day
  • blood and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
  • blood-and-guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
  • blue dandelion — chicory (def 1).
  • bomber command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to tactical and strategic bombing, esp during WWII
  • bonded-whiskey — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • bound moisture — Bound moisture is liquid in a solid, which exerts a vapor pressure that is less than the pure liquid would do at the same temperature.
  • bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
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