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16-letter words containing b, a, r, d, e, s

  • observation ward — a ward in a hospital where patients are monitored
  • on her beam-ends — (of a vessel) heeled over through an angle of 90°
  • pass-band filter — band-pass filter
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • reasonable doubt — law: grounds for believing sb is innocent
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • single-barrelled — (of a firearm) having a single barrel
  • sir herbert readGeorge, 1733–98, American political leader: served in the Continental Congress 1774–77.
  • snakebite remedy — hard liquor.
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • sodium perborate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, NaBO 2 ⋅3H 2 O or NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and antiseptic.
  • spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
  • st. john's-bread — carob (def 2).
  • strawberry blond — reddish blond.
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • sysdeco mimer ab — (company)   Part of the international software group Sysdeco Group AS. They developed the MIMER RDBMS. Address: Uppsala, Sweden.
  • the barren lands — a region of tundra in N Canada, extending westwards from Hudson Bay: sparsely inhabited, chiefly by Inuit
  • the red brigades — a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978
  • the subsidiariat — a collective term for the news sources that would not survive without being subsidized directly (by a government, etc), or indirectly (through sharing a parent company with another more profitable revenue source)
  • the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
  • to get bad press — If someone or something gets bad press, they are criticized, especially in the newspapers, on television, or on radio. If they get good press, they are praised.
  • tread the boards — to set down the foot or feet in walking; step; walk.
  • tungsten carbide — a very hard, black or gray compound of tungsten and carbon, used in the manufacture of cutting and abrasion tools, dies, and wear-resistant machine parts.
  • under bare poles — (of a sailing vessel) with no sails set
  • ununderstandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • whatever sb does — You say whatever you do when giving advice or warning someone about something.
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