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

  • 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.
  • 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
  • candleberries — Plural form of candleberry.
  • cap and bells — the traditional garb of a court jester, including a cap with bells attached to it
  • carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • cleveland bay — one of the oldest British breeds of clean-legged, light draught farm and carriage horse, originating from Yorkshire
  • club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • conditionable — able to be conditioned
  • control board — a panel containing switches, dials, and other equipment for regulating electrical devices, lights, etc.
  • cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
  • cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
  • covalent bond — a type of chemical bond involving the sharing of electrons between atoms in a molecule, esp the sharing of a pair of electrons by two adjacent atoms
  • dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
  • day blindness — hemeralopia.
  • debit balance — the amount of money owed to a lender, etc
  • decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
  • defendability — (uncountable) The condition of being defendable.
  • deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
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