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13-letter words containing a, d, l, n

  • bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
  • biconditional — (of a proposition) asserting that the existence or occurrence of one thing or event depends on, and is dependent on, the existence or occurrence of another, as “A if and only if B.”.
  • bidenticulate — having two small teeth or toothlike processes.
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
  • bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • black and tan — a mixture of stout or porter and ale
  • black diamond — coal (sense 1)
  • black pudding — Black pudding is a thick sausage which has a black skin and is made from pork fat and pig's blood.
  • black-and-tan — (of a dog) of a black color with tan markings above the eyes and on the muzzle, chest, legs, feet, and breech.
  • bladder senna — a Eurasian leguminous plant, Colutea arborescens, with yellow and red flowers and membranous inflated pods
  • blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
  • blood diamond — a diamond sold to help finance a military campaign
  • blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
  • bloody sunday — (in Northern Ireland) 30th January 1972, when British soldiers shot dead thirteen marchers in Londonderry who were protesting against the UK government's policy of internment
  • bloomfieldian — Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.
  • body and soul — You use body and soul to mean every part of you, including your mind and your emotions.
  • body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
  • bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
  • bonin islands — a group of 27 volcanic islands in the W Pacific: occupied by the US after World War II; returned to Japan in 1968. Largest island: Chichijima. Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles)
  • boots and all — making every effort; with no holds barred
  • bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
  • boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brand loyalty — the tendency of consumers to continue buying a particular brand instead of trying a different one
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
  • bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
  • building land — land on which construction can take place
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • caiman lizard — a crocodilelike lizard, Dracaena guianensis, of South America, having powerful jaws for crushing the snails and mussels upon which it feeds.
  • cakes and ale — the good things of life; worldly pleasures
  • calendar year — A calendar year is a period of twelve months from January 1 to December 31. Calendar year is often used in business to compare with the financial year.
  • canada balsam — a yellow transparent resin obtained from the balsam fir. Because its refractive index is similar to that of glass, it is used as an adhesive in optical devices and as a mounting medium for microscope specimens
  • canal du midi — a canal in S France, extending from the River Garonne at Toulouse to the Mediterranean at Sète and providing a link between the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts: built between 1666 and 1681. Length: 181 km (150 miles)
  • canaliculated — Canaliculate.
  • candle grease — the wax which is used in the manufacture of candles
  • candleberries — Plural form of candleberry.
  • candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
  • candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
  • candlesnuffer — an implement, or person, that extinguishes candle flames
  • candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
  • cap and bells — the traditional garb of a court jester, including a cap with bells attached to it
  • capello index — a player rating website backed by Fabio Capello in which marks are awarded to football players in the top teams according to their performance in key skills of the game
  • carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
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