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12-letter words containing d, s, n

  • bandjarmasin — Banjarmasin
  • bandjermasin — a seaport on the S coast of Borneo, in Indonesia.
  • bandoneonist — One who plays the bandoneon.
  • bank deposit — money placed in a bank account
  • banks island — an island of N Canada, in the Northwest Territories: the westernmost island of the Arctic Archipelago. Area: about 67 340 sq km (26 000 sq miles)
  • barbados nut — an ornamental, tropical American tree, Jatropha curcas, of the spurge family, having ivylike leaves, small, yellow or greenish-yellow flowers, and olive-shaped fruit yielding a purgative, poisonous oil.
  • barodynamics — the branch of mechanics concerned with heavy structures
  • basset hound — A basset hound is a dog with short strong legs, a long body, and long ears. It is kept as a pet or used for hunting.
  • bastard wing — a tuft of feathers attached to the first digit of a bird, distinct from the wing feathers attached to the other digits and the ulna
  • bastardizing — Present participle of bastardize.
  • bastinadoing — Present participle of bastinado.
  • beaconsfield — a town in SE England, in Buckinghamshire. Pop: 12 292 (2001)
  • beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
  • bed of nails — a situation or position of extreme difficulty
  • bell gardens — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • benumbedness — the condition of being benumbed
  • besottedness — the state of being besotted
  • bevel siding — siding composed of tapered pieces, as clapboards, laid with the thicker lower edge of any piece overlapping the thinner upper edge of the piece below it.
  • bias binding — a strip of material cut on the bias for extra stretch and often doubled, used for binding hems, interfacings, etc, or for decoration
  • big-sounding — meant to be impressive in scale
  • binding post — one of several metal pegs or rods, fitted into a loose-leaf binder, for holding sheets with prepunched holes.
  • bindle stiff — a hobo.
  • bird nesting — the activity of searching for birds' nests as a hobby
  • bird-s--nest — nest (def 1).
  • blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
  • blind casing — (in a box window frame) a rough framework to which the trim is secured.
  • blind stitch — a type of stitch that is visible on one side of the material only
  • blind summit — a point on a road where a vehicle approaching the top of a hill or incline cannot see vehicles approaching up the other side of the hill
  • blind-emboss — blind-stamp.
  • block island — an island off the coast of and a part of Rhode Island, at the E entrance to Long Island Sound.
  • blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
  • boardsailing — windsurfing
  • body english — a follow-through motion of the body, as after bowling a ball, in a semi-involuntary or joking effort to control the ball's movement
  • body scanner — a machine using X-rays and a computer, used in medicine to look for signs of disease, or in security operations to look for drugs, weapons, etc
  • bog-standard — If you describe something as bog-standard you mean that is an ordinary example of its kind, with no exciting or interesting features.
  • bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
  • bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
  • bonded goods — goods which have been deposited in a bonded warehouse
  • bone density — the degree of compactness of bone
  • bosom friend — an intimate friend
  • bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
  • bradykinesia — abnormal slowness of physical movement, esp as an effect of Parkinson's disease
  • brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
  • broadcasting — Broadcasting is the making and sending out of television and radio programmes.
  • business end — The business end of a tool or weapon is the end of it which does the work or causes damage rather than the end that you hold.
  • cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
  • caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
  • campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
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