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15-letter words containing d, s, n

  • aneroid capsule — a box or chamber of thin metal, partially exhausted of air, used in the aneroid barometer and pressure altimeter.
  • anniversary day — a day for celebrating the foundation date of one of the former Provinces
  • answer the door — When you answer the door, you go and open the door because a visitor has knocked on it or rung the bell.
  • anti-depressant — An anti-depressant is a drug which is used to treat people who are suffering from depression.
  • anti-federalism — U.S. History. a member or supporter of the Antifederal party.
  • anti-radicalism — the holding or following of radical or extreme views or principles.
  • antiaphrodisiac — something that represses sexual desire
  • antidepressants — of or relating to a substance that is used in the treatment of mood disorders, as characterized by various manic or depressive affects.
  • antifederalists — Plural form of antifederalist.
  • anybody's guess — a person of some importance: If you're anybody, you'll receive an invitation.
  • armaments depot — a store for armaments
  • arrest judgment — to stay proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
  • arrondissements — Plural form of arrondissement.
  • arts and crafts — decorative handicraft and design, esp that of the Arts and Crafts movement, in late nineteenth-century Britain, which sought to revive medieval craftsmanship
  • ascending colon — the first portion of the colon, beginning at the cecum in the lower right abdominal cavity and continuing upward along the right posterior abdominal wall to approximately the lower ribs.
  • ascending scale — a scale that is rising in pitch
  • assistant judge — a person who assists a judge in their work or who is not yet fully qualified as a judge
  • assisted living — Assisted living is a type of housing specially designed for people who need help in their everyday lives, but who do not need specialist nursing care. In assisted living facilities, residents live in independent rooms or apartments, but receive help with day-to-day activities, for example bathing, dressing, preparing meals, and taking their medicines.
  • assured tenancy — an agreement between a government-approved body such as a housing association and a tenant for occupation of a newly-built house or flat at an agreed market rent, under which the tenant has security of tenure
  • astrodynamicist — a person who studies astrodynamics
  • at sb's bidding — If you do something at someone's bidding, you do it because they have asked you to do it.
  • at the hands of — If someone experiences a particular kind of treatment, especially unpleasant treatment, at the hands of a person or organization, they receive it from them.
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • auf wiedersehen — goodbye, until we see each other again
  • augmented sixth — an interval greater than a major sixth by a chromatic half step.
  • bag on the side — An extension to an established hack that is supposed to add some functionality to the original. Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product is ugly, inelegant, or bloated. Also "to hang a bag on the side [of]". "C++? That's just a bag on the side of C." "They want me to hang a bag on the side of the accounting system."
  • bait and switch — Bait and switch is used to refer to a sales technique in which goods are advertised at low prices in order to attract customers, although only a small number of the low-priced goods are available.
  • bait-and-switch — denoting a deceptive method of selling, by which customers, attracted to a store by sale items, are told either that the advertised bargain item is out of stock or is inferior to a higher-priced item that is available.
  • bandpass filter — A bandpass filter is a filter designed to pass all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
  • barn-door skate — an Atlantic skate, Raja laevis, that grows to a length of 4 feet (1.2 meters) or more.
  • basic anhydride — a compound formed by removing water from a more complex compound: an oxide of a nonmetal (acid anhydride) or a metal (basic anhydride) that forms an acid or a base, respectively, when united with water.
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • basse-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: consists of the Cherbourg peninsula in the west rising to the Normandy hills in the east; mainly agricultural
  • bathurst island — an island off the coast of N Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Archipelago: present south of the North Magnetic Pole nearby. 7609 sq. mi. (19,707 sq. km).
  • be of two minds — to be undecided or irresolute
  • be on the skids — to be on the decline or downgrade; meet with failure
  • be snowed under — to be overwhelmed, esp with paperwork
  • beast of burden — A beast of burden is an animal such as an ox or a donkey that is used for carrying or pulling things.
  • beat the bounds — (formerly) to define the boundaries of a parish by making a procession around them and hitting the ground with rods
  • bedloe's island — Liberty Island
  • belt-and-braces — providing double security, in case one security measure should fail
  • belted sandfish — a sea bass, Serranus subligarius, inhabiting warm, shallow waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • ben day process — a method of adding texture, shading, or detail to line drawings by overlaying a transparent sheet of dots or any other pattern during platemaking
  • beyond question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • beyond sb's ken — If something is beyond your ken, you do not have enough knowledge to be able to understand it.
  • bide one's time — to wait patiently for an opportunity
  • big sandy creek — a river in central Colorado, flowing NE and SE to the Arkansas River near Lamar: site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. 200 miles (322 km) long.
  • billings method — a natural method of birth control that involves examining the colour and viscosity of the cervical mucus to discover when ovulation is occurring
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