13-letter words containing i, n, b, d
- boron nitride — a white inert crystalline solid existing both in a graphite-like form and in an extremely hard diamond-like form (borazon). It is used as a refractory, high-temperature lubricant and insulator, and heat shield. Formula: BN
- boudoir grand — a domestic grand piano between 5 and 6 feet in length
- bound up with — closely or inextricably linked with
- boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
- brace and bit — a hand tool for boring holes, consisting of a cranked handle into which a drilling bit is inserted
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- brain-damaged — Someone who is brain-damaged has suffered brain damage.
- branding iron — a long-handled metal rod with a stamp at one end, used for branding livestock, especially cattle, with a registered or recognized symbol or character to indicate ownership.
- branding-iron — an iron heated and used for branding animals, etc
- brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
- bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
- bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
- break dancing — a style of dance engaged in by youths, involving acrobatic movements, spinning about on the head or shoulders, etc.
- break feeding — the feeding of animals on paddocks where feeding space is controlled by the frequent movement of an electric fence
- break it down — stop it
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- breeding pair — a male and female animal that produce offspring together
- bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bridging shot — a shot inserted in a film to indicate the passage of time between two scenes, as of a series of newspaper headlines or calendar pages being torn off.
- brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
- bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
- bring to mind — recall
- british india — the 17 provinces of India formerly governed by the British under the British sovereign: ceased to exist in 1947 when the independent states of India and Pakistan were created
- broken-winded — suffering from heaves
- brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
- buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
- bud variation — any variation in a bud due to changes in either its genetic composition or environment or both such that the resulting flower, fruit, or shoot differs from others of the same plant or species.
- bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
- building land — land on which construction can take place
- building line — the boundary line along a street beyond which buildings must not project
- building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
- building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
- bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
- burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
- buridan's ass — an example intended to show the deficiency of reason. An ass standing equidistant from two identical heaps of oats starves to death because reason provides no grounds for choosing to eat one rather than the other
- burt standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- 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.
- butanoic acid — kind of acid
- by definition — If you say that something has a particular quality by definition, you mean that it has this quality simply because of what it is.
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- candleberries — Plural form of candleberry.
- captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
- carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
- carbonic acid — a weak acid formed when carbon dioxide combines with water: obtained only in aqueous solutions, never in the pure state. Formula: H2CO3
- 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)
- chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
- child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.