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

  • 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.
  • scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • 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
  • shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
  • 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.
  • sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
  • 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.
  • subindication — the act or process of subindicating
  • subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
  • subordination — the act of placing in a lower rank or position: The refusal to allow women to be educated was part of society's subordination of women to men.
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subsidization — to furnish or aid with a subsidy.
  • 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.
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
  • third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
  • transboundary — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  • treasury bond — any of various interest-bearing bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, usually maturing over a long period of time.
  • undescendable — unable to be descended or walked upon
  • undescribable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
  • undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
  • undiscernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
  • undiscussable — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
  • undisguisable — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
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