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

  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
  • booby-trapped — (of a building, vehicle, etc) planted with a booby trap
  • boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
  • border patrol — a government agency in charge of preventing terrorists, weapons, and illegal immigrants entering the country
  • border states — slave states bordering on the free states before the Civil War: Mo., Ky., Va., Md., & Del.
  • borna disease — viral disease found in mammals, esp horses
  • boron carbide — a black extremely hard inert substance having a high capture cross section for thermal neutrons. It is used as an abrasive, refractory, and in control rods in nuclear reactors. Formula: B4C
  • bottled water — water sold in bottles
  • bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
  • bounce around — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
  • boundary peak — a peak in SW Nevada, in the White Mountains, near the California border: highest elevation in Nevada. 13,143 feet (4006 meters).
  • bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
  • boys' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for boys, founded in 1883, with the aim of promoting discipline and self-respect
  • brace and bit — a hand tool for boring holes, consisting of a cranked handle into which a drilling bit is inserted
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brain-damaged — Someone who is brain-damaged has suffered brain damage.
  • brand manager — the person responsible for the marketing of a particular brand
  • branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
  • brandy butter — butter and sugar creamed together with brandy and served with Christmas pudding, etc
  • bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
  • bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • break dancing — a style of dance engaged in by youths, involving acrobatic movements, spinning about on the head or shoulders, etc.
  • break feeding — the feeding of animals on paddocks where feeding space is controlled by the frequent movement of an electric fence
  • break it down — stop it
  • breech-loader — a firearm that is loaded at the breech
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • breeding pair — a male and female animal that produce offspring together
  • breidha fjord — an inlet of Denmark Strait on the NW coast of Iceland.
  • bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
  • bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
  • bridge player — a person who plays the game of bridge
  • brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
  • broad hatchet — a hatchet with a broad cutting edge.
  • broad-brimmed — (of a hat) having a broad brim
  • broadly based — Something that is broadly based involves many different kinds of things or people.
  • brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
  • bucket ladder — a series of buckets that move in a continuous chain, used to dredge riverbeds, etc, or to excavate land
  • bullhead rail — a rail having a cross section with a bulbous top and bottom, the top being larger
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • business card — A person's business card or their card is a small card which they give to other people, and which has their name and details of their job and company printed on it.
  • butyraldehyde — a colourless flammable pungent liquid used in the manufacture of resins. Formula: CH3(CH2)2CHO
  • cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
  • 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.
  • call to order — to request to be quiet, as to start (a meeting)
  • called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
  • camera lucida — an instrument attached to a microscope, etc to enable an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface to facilitate the sketching of the image
  • candid camera — a small camera that may be used to take informal photographs of people, usually without their knowledge
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