13-letter words containing b, e, d, a, s
- indissolvable — Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated.
- indissuadable — incapable of being dissuaded
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- irredeemables — undated government or debenture stock
- knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
- leave sb cold — If something leaves you cold, it fails to excite or interest you.
- libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
- lonsdale belt — (in Britain) a belt conferred as a trophy on professional boxing champions, in various weight categories: if a champion wins it three times it becomes his personal property
- make sb's day — If something makes your day, it makes you feel very happy.
- managed bonds — investment in a combination of fixed interest securities, equities, gilts, and property, in which an investment manager, acting on a client's behalf, varies the amount invested in each according to the returns expected
- message board — bulletin board system
- misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
- miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
- nondisposable — Not disposable.
- nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
- oil-based mud — Oil-based mud is a drilling fluid that is an emulsion containing oil as the base fluid.
- osborne, adam — Adam Osborne
- pas de basque — a step in which the dancer swings one foot to the side, springs onto it, and swings the other foot against it.
- postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
- reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
- red sea bream — either of two fish of the family Sparidae, Pagrus major and Pagellus bogaraveo. Pagrus major is a popular food fish in Japan, Taiwan and Spain
- reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- refried beans — fried mashed beans
- riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
- robben island — a small island in South Africa, 11 km (7 miles) off the Cape Peninsula: formerly used by the South African government to house political prisoners
- run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
- saber-toothed — having long, saberlike upper canine teeth, sometimes extending below the margin of the lower jaw.
- sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
- sacred bamboo — nandina.
- sacred scarab — a beetle, Scarabaeus sacer, regarded by the ancient Egyptians as divine
- saddle-backed — having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
- saint bernard — Great, a mountain pass between SW Switzerland and NW Italy, in the Pennine Alps: Napoleon led his army through it in 1800; location of a hospice. 8108 feet (2470 meters) high.
- sand bluestem — a grass, Andropogon hallii, native to the Great Plains, used as a cover crop for sand dunes.
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
- second banana — a comic who supports the leading comedian, often as a straight man, especially in burlesque or vaudeville.
- sedge warbler — a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)
- self-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
- semicarbazide — an organic nitrogen compound derived from urea
- shield bearer — an attendant who carries the shield or arms of a warrior.
- skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
- skin and bone — You can say someone is just skin and bone when you do not approve of the fact that they are very thin.
- soapbox derby — a race between children in homemade racing carts
- sodium borate — borax1 .
- solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
- sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.
- sound blaster — (hardware) The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.