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13-letter words containing e, n, t, r, a, d

  • beetlebrained — stupid
  • benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • brace and bit — a hand tool for boring holes, consisting of a cranked handle into which a drilling bit is inserted
  • brandy butter — butter and sugar creamed together with brandy and served with Christmas pudding, etc
  • break it down — stop it
  • brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
  • brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
  • 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.
  • cap-and-trade — denoting a scheme which allows companies with high greenhouse gas emissions to buy an emission allowance from companies which have fewer emissions, in a bid to reduce the overall impact to the environment
  • carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
  • cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
  • cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
  • casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
  • 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.
  • central india — a former political agency in central India uniting various native states and subordinate agencies: now incorporated into Madhya Pradesh.
  • centre spread — the pair of two facing pages in the middle of a magazine, newspaper, etc, often illustrated
  • chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
  • cigarette end — the part of a cigarette that is held in the mouth and that remains unsmoked after it is finished
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • compartmented — Divided into compartments.
  • concert grand — a full-size grand piano, usually around 7 feet in length
  • confederating — Present participle of confederate.
  • confederation — A confederation is an organization or group consisting of smaller groups or states, especially one that exists for business or political purposes.
  • confederative — of confederates or a confederation
  • conglomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglomerate.
  • congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • conservatized — Simple past tense and past participle of conservatize.
  • considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
  • consideration — Consideration is careful thought about something.
  • considerative — considerate
  • constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
  • containerised — Simple past tense and past participle of containerise.
  • containerized — Simple past tense and past participle of containerize.
  • contradictive — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • coresidential — relating to joint residency
  • cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
  • costardmonger — a costermonger
  • counterdemand — a demand made in response to another demand
  • countermanded — Simple past tense and past participle of countermand.
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