13-letter words containing d, r, e, s, n
- bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
- bedroom scene — a scene in which lovers are in bed
- bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
- berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
- binding screw — a screw used to secure one thing to another
- bladder senna — a Eurasian leguminous plant, Colutea arborescens, with yellow and red flowers and membranous inflated pods
- boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- borna disease — viral disease found in mammals, esp horses
- boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
- branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
- bretton woods — resort in the White Mountains, N.H.: site of a United Nations monetary conference (1944) at which the International Monetary Fund was established
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- business card — A person's business card or their card is a small card which they give to other people, and which has their name and details of their job and company printed on it.
- candle grease — the wax which is used in the manufacture of candles
- candleberries — Plural form of candleberry.
- candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
- candlesnuffer — an implement, or person, that extinguishes candle flames
- candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
- candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
- candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
- cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
- cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
- cardioversion — restoring the rhythm of the heart to normal by applying direct-current electrical shock.
- cascade range — a chain of mountains in the US and Canada: a continuation of the Sierra Nevada range from N California through Oregon and Washington to British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Rainier, 4392 m (14 408 ft)
- casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
- casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- center spread — the pair of pages facing each other at the center of a magazine or newspaper, printed and made up as a single unit.
- centre spread — the pair of two facing pages in the middle of a magazine, newspaper, etc, often illustrated
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- chandrasekhar — Subrahmanyan (ˌsʊbrəˈmænjən). 1910–95, US astronomer born in Lahore, India (now Pakistan). His work on stellar evolution led to an understanding of white dwarfs: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1983
- child version — (system management) In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
- childrenswear — clothing for children
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
- co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
- co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
- coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
- colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- concertedness — the state of being concerted
- confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
- confirmedness — The quality of being confirmed.
- conidiophores — Plural form of conidiophore.
- conservatized — Simple past tense and past participle of conservatize.