13-letter words containing d, i, n
- audaciousness — Risky or daring behaviour.
- audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
- audio-lingual — pertaining to listening comprehension and speaking, especially in learning a foreign language.
- austin dobson — (Henry) Austin, 1840–1921, English poet, biographer, and essayist.
- authenticated — Prove or show (something, esp. a claim or an artistic work) to be true or genuine.
- autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
- autooxidation — autoxidation.
- avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
- award-winning — An award-winning person or thing has won an award, especially an important or valuable one.
- awning window — a window frame having one or more sashes hinged at the top and swinging outward.
- back and fill — to manoeuvre the sails by alternately filling and emptying them of wind to navigate in a narrow place
- backgrounding — Present participle of background.
- backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
- backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
- badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
- baffin island — the largest island of the Canadian Arctic, between Greenland and Hudson Bay. Area: 476 560 sq km (184 000 sq miles)
- bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
- baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
- balanced diet — a diet consisting of the proper quantities and proportions of foods needed to maintain health or growth.
- balanced line — a transmission line in which the oppositely directed components are symmetrical with respect to each other and to the ground.
- ball and ring — a simplified bead-and-reel turning, used especially in English and American furniture of the 17th century.
- ball handling — the control of the ball, as in basketball or soccer, by skillful dribbling and accurate passing.
- banana spider — a large, yellowish, tropical crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria) occasionally found in bunches of bananas shipped to the Temperate Zones
- band-aid baby — a child conceived to strengthen a faltering relationship
- banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
- bandicoot rat — any of three burrowing rats of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia, of S and SE Asia: family Muridae
- bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
- bank discount — interest on a loan deducted from the principal amount when the loan is made and based on the loan's face value
- bar-and-grill — a place where food and alcoholic drinks are served to customers; a combined barroom and grillroom.
- basket dinner — a group social gathering, as of church members, to which participants contribute casseroles or other dishes to share.
- bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
- batan islands — a group of islands in the Philippines, north of Luzon. Capital: Basco. Pop: 16 467 (2000). Area: 197 sq km (76 sq miles)
- batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
- be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
- be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
- bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
- bedding plane — the surface separating two successive layers of stratified rock
- bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
- bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
- bedtime drink — a drink before bed, often made with milk
- beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
- beetlebrained — stupid
- belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
- bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
- benedict viii — died 1024, pope 1012–24.
- benedict xiii — (Pietro Francesco Orsini) 1649–1730, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1724–30.
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound