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13-letter words containing d, e, n, m

  • antimodernist — opposed to modernism
  • archimandrite — the head of a monastery or a group of monasteries
  • arm and a leg — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • armstand dive — a dive starting from a handstand at the end of a springboard or a platform with the diver's back to the water.
  • audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
  • bab el mandeb — a strait between SW Arabia and E Africa, connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden
  • band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
  • beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • bedroom scene — a scene in which lovers are in bed
  • bedtime drink — a drink before bed, often made with milk
  • benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • beyond number — too numerous to be counted
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
  • blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
  • bloody-minded — If you say that someone is being bloody-minded, you are showing that you disapprove of their behaviour because you think they are being deliberately difficult instead of being helpful.
  • 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.
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brain-damaged — Someone who is brain-damaged has suffered brain damage.
  • brand manager — the person responsible for the marketing of a particular brand
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
  • candid camera — a small camera that may be used to take informal photographs of people, usually without their knowledge
  • casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
  • cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
  • chance-medley — a sudden quarrel in which one party kills another; unintentional but not blameless killing
  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • chemin de fer — a gambling game, a variation of baccarat
  • chlormerodrin — a white, bitter, odorless powder, ClHgN 2 H 11 O 2 , soluble in methanol and ethanol and slightly soluble in water, used in medicine as a diuretic.
  • cinco de mayo — May 5, anniversary of the victory of Mexico over French forces at Puebla in 1862: observed by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • closed-minded — having a mind firmly unreceptive to new ideas or arguments: It's hard to argue with, much less convince, a closed-minded person.
  • come in handy — If something comes in handy, it is useful in a particular situation.
  • command paper — (in Britain) a government document that is presented to Parliament, in theory by royal command
  • commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
  • commandership — a person who commands.
  • commaundement — Obsolete spelling of commandment.
  • commendations — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • commented out — comment out
  • committedness — The state or condition of being committed; commitment.
  • common gender — in English, a noun that is the same whether it is referring to either gender, such as cat, people, spouse.
  • compactedness — the state of being compacted
  • company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
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