16-letter words containing b, a, l, d
- self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- shoot-to-disable — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to disable rather than kill
- single-barrelled — (of a firearm) having a single barrel
- sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
- sounding balloon — a balloon carrying instruments aloft to make atmospheric measurements, especially a radiosonde balloon.
- spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
- stalked puffball — a puffball-like mushroom of the genus Tulestoma, maturing in early winter.
- strawberry blond — reddish blond.
- sublingual gland — (in human beings) either of a pair of salivary glands situated beneath the tongue
- sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
- tanimbar islands — a group of over 600 islands in E Indonesia, in the Banda Sea. About 2100 sq. mi. (5440 sq. km).
- tell one's beads — 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.
- teutoburger wald — a chain of wooded hills in Germany, in Westphalia: Romans defeated by German tribes a.d.
- thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
- the barren lands — a region of tundra in N Canada, extending westwards from Hudson Bay: sparsely inhabited, chiefly by Inuit
- the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
- turn a blind eye — pretend not to see sth
- turntable ladder — a power-operated extending ladder mounted on a fire engine
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- uncontradictable — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
- under bare poles — (of a sailing vessel) with no sails set
- undifferentiable — capable of being differentiated.
- unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- ununderstandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- valet de chambre — valet (def 1).
- vegetable garden — allotment
- verbal adjective — an adjective derived from a verb, as, in English, smiling in smiling eyes, or, in Greek, batós “going,” “moving,” derived from baínen “to go,” “to move.”.
- verbal diarrhoea — a tendency to speak at excessive length
- viola da braccio — an old musical instrument of the viol family, held against the shoulder like a violin: superseded by the modern viola.
- vulcanized fiber — a leatherlike substance made by compression of layers of paper or cloth that have been treated with acids or zinc chloride, used chiefly for electric insulation.
- well-established — permanently founded; settled; firmly set: a well-established business; a well-established habit.
- wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
- william bradford — Gamaliel, 1863–1932, U.S. biographer and novelist.
- woodland caribou — a variety of caribou inhabiting the bogs and forests of eastern Canada, having large, palmate antlers.
- world bank group — the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association, whose headquarters are all in Washington