13-letter words containing b, o, r, d, e, s
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
- get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
- gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
- horse breeder — a person who breeds horses
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- inverted snob — a person who scorns the conventions or attitudes of his own class or social group by attempting to identify with people of a supposedly lower class
- message board — bulletin board system
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- neighborhoods — Plural form of neighborhood.
- nonprescribed — Not prescribed.
- ombudspersons — Plural form of ombudsperson.
- osborne, adam — Adam Osborne
- premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
- 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
- rosebud mouth — a mouth that resembles the unopened flower of a rose in shape
- saber-toothed — having long, saberlike upper canine teeth, sometimes extending below the margin of the lower jaw.
- sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
- sacred bamboo — nandina.
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- self-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
- self-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- 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.
- smoked rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of brown sheets obtained by coagulating latex with an acid, rolling it into sheets, and drying over open wood fires. It is the main raw material for natural rubber products
- 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.
- springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
- subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- swedenborgian — 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.
- sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
- the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
- treasury bond — any of various interest-bearing bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, usually maturing over a long period of time.
- vitreous body — a transparent gelatinous substance, permeated by fine fibrils, that fills the interior of the eyeball between the lens and the retina
- weatherboards — Plural form of weatherboard.
- well-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.