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

  • androdioecism — the state of being androdioecious
  • animadversion — criticism or censure
  • anti-idealism — the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc.
  • anti-idealist — a person who cherishes or pursues high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc. Synonyms: optimist, perfectionist, reformer, visionary, utopianist. Antonyms: pragmatist, skeptic, cynic.
  • anti-sedition — incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
  • antidesiccant — a substance applied to plants to prevent moisture loss during transplantation
  • antidiuretics — Plural form of antidiuretic.
  • antimodernism — modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern.
  • antimodernist — opposed to modernism
  • antipesticide — opposed to the use of pesticides
  • 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.
  • arseniuretted — combined with arsenic so as to form an arsenide.
  • arsenous acid — a toxic white powder, As2O3, used to make other arsenic compounds, insecticides, and preservatives; white arsenic
  • arundinaceous — resembling a reed
  • ascension day — the 40th day after Easter, when the Ascension of Christ into heaven is celebrated
  • ascensiontide — the ten days from Ascension Day to the day before Whit Sunday
  • ash wednesday — Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent.
  • assiduousness — constant; unremitting: assiduous reading.
  • assigned risk — a risk that, under state law, is assigned to an insurer from a pool of insurers who would not otherwise accept it.
  • at loose ends — in an unsettled, disorganized, or confused condition
  • aten asteroid — one of a small group of asteroids whose orbits cross that of the earth and whose semimajor axes are smaller than that of the earth.
  • attitudinizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attitudinize.
  • audaciousness — Risky or daring behaviour.
  • autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
  • autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
  • backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
  • baker's dozen — thirteen
  • balanced step — any of a series of staircase winders so planned that they are nearly as wide at the inside of the stair as the adjacent fliers.
  • balloon shade — a window shade that when raised is gathered into a series of puffy festoons created by inverted pleats in the fabric.
  • banana spider — a large, yellowish, tropical crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria) occasionally found in bunches of bananas shipped to the Temperate Zones
  • 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
  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
  • 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
  • barefacedness — The state or quality of being barefaced.
  • 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.
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • 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
  • beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • 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
  • benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • bespottedness — the state of being covered with spots or blemishes
  • 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
  • blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
  • blessed event — the birth of a child; also, a newborn child
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