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13-letter words containing a, n, d, r, o

  • audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
  • autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
  • backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
  • backgrounding — Present participle of background.
  • backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
  • baker's dozen — thirteen
  • baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
  • band together — If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
  • bandicoot rat — any of three burrowing rats of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia, of S and SE Asia: family Muridae
  • barnacle code — (programming, humour)   Any piece of code (usually a static method) that has been appended to a class where it doesn't logically belong, due to a lack of anywhere else to put it.
  • barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
  • batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
  • bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
  • bed and board — sleeping accommodation and meals
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • 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
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • boarding card — A boarding card is a card which a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • boarding pass — A boarding pass is a card that a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • boudoir grand — a domestic grand piano between 5 and 6 feet in length
  • 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).
  • boundary scan — The use of scan registers to capture state from device input and output pins. IEEE Standard 1149.1-1990 describes the international standard implementation (sometimes called JTAG after the Joint Test Action Group which began the standardisation work).
  • 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
  • bow and arrow — a weapon consisting of a bow together with an arrow that may be fired from it
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brand loyalty — the tendency of consumers to continue buying a particular brand instead of trying a different one
  • branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
  • branding iron — a long-handled metal rod with a stamp at one end, used for branding livestock, especially cattle, with a registered or recognized symbol or character to indicate ownership.
  • branding-iron — an iron heated and used for branding animals, etc
  • brass foundry — a foundry that makes things from brass
  • brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
  • break it down — stop it
  • 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.
  • bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
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