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15-letter words containing b, e, d, i, n, g

  • get sb into bed — To get someone into bed means to persuade them to have sex with you.
  • gilbert islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific: with Banaba, the Phoenix Islands, and three of the Line Islands they constitute the independent state of Kiribati; until 1975 they formed part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands; achieved full independence in 1979. Pop: 82 902 (2005). Area: 295 sq km (114 sq miles)
  • gingerbread man — biscuit in the shape of a man
  • golden boy/girl — If you refer to a man as a golden boy or a woman as a golden girl, you mean that they are especially popular and successful.
  • ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • hindenburg line — a line of elaborate fortifications established by the German army in World War I, near the French-Belgian border, from Lille SE to Metz.
  • indigestibility — The state of being indigestible.
  • lending library — Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • mackinac bridge — a suspension bridge over the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan: one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. 3800-foot (1158-meter) center span; 7400 feet (2256 meters) in total length.
  • meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
  • night blindness — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
  • nimble-fingered — able to move the fingers agilely, quickly, and neatly
  • office building — building containing offices
  • order-embedding — A function f : D -> C is order-embedding iff for all x, y in D, f(x) <= f(y) <=> x <= y. I.e. arguments and results compare similarly. A function which is order-embedding is monotonic and one-to-one and an injection. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
  • organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
  • painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • record-breaking — top, most successful
  • regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
  • registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
  • riding breeches — calf-length trousers of whipcord or other durable fabric, flaring at the sides of the thighs and fitting snugly at and below the knees, worn with riding boots for horseback riding, hunting, etc.
  • scolding bridle — branks.
  • second blessing — an experience of sanctification coming after conversion.
  • single-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) having a front closure directly in the center with only a narrow overlap secured by a single button or row of buttons.
  • single-sideband — of or pertaining to a system of radio transmission in which one of the two sidebands produced during modulation is suppressed
  • sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • wedding banquet — a lavish meal served after a wedding ceremony
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