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13-letter words containing a, b, d, e

  • saber-toothed — having long, saberlike upper canine teeth, sometimes extending below the margin of the lower jaw.
  • sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
  • sacred bamboo — nandina.
  • sacred scarab — a beetle, Scarabaeus sacer, regarded by the ancient Egyptians as divine
  • saddle-backed — having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
  • saint bernard — Great, a mountain pass between SW Switzerland and NW Italy, in the Pennine Alps: Napoleon led his army through it in 1800; location of a hospice. 8108 feet (2470 meters) high.
  • sand bluestem — a grass, Andropogon hallii, native to the Great Plains, used as a cover crop for sand dunes.
  • sandwich beam — flitch beam.
  • scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
  • second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
  • second banana — a comic who supports the leading comedian, often as a straight man, especially in burlesque or vaudeville.
  • sedge warbler — a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)
  • self-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
  • semicarbazide — an organic nitrogen compound derived from urea
  • shield bearer — an attendant who carries the shield or arms of a warrior.
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • skin and bone — You can say someone is just skin and bone when you do not approve of the fact that they are very thin.
  • soapbox derby — a race between children in homemade racing carts
  • sodium borate — borax1 .
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
  • spreader beam — a crosspiece for spacing the chains or cables hanging from the boom of a crane.
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • standard-bred — pertaining to a horse of the Standardbred breed.
  • stringer bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • subdepartment — a distinct part of anything arranged in divisions; a division of a complex whole or organized system.
  • subderivative — a word derived from a derivative.
  • subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • substantiated — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
  • superabundant — exceedingly or excessively abundant; more than sufficient; excessive.
  • surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
  • swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
  • table dancing — Table dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances in a sexy way close to a customer or group of customers.
  • table--d-hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
  • take on board — be receptive
  • team handball — a game, similar to soccer, played between two teams of seven players who catch, dribble, throw, or hit the ball with the hands.
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
  • thiocarbamide — thiourea.
  • third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
  • thread blight — a fungal disease of woody plants, characterized by thick, threadlike strands of mycelium on the undersides of the leaves and branches.
  • tidal barrage — a barrier that traps water at high tide, creating a tidal basin
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