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13-letter words containing n, a, b, e, d

  • beat the band — a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
  • bed and board — sleeping accommodation and meals
  • bedding plane — the surface separating two successive layers of stratified rock
  • bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
  • bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
  • beetlebrained — stupid
  • belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
  • benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
  • benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
  • benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • beyond a joke — If you say that an annoying or worrying situation is beyond a joke, you are emphasizing that it is worse than you think is fair or reasonable.
  • beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
  • bib and brace — a work garment consisting of trousers and an upper front part supported by straps over the shoulders
  • bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
  • bidenticulate — having two small teeth or toothlike processes.
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • 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.
  • blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
  • bloomfieldian — Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
  • boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
  • borna disease — viral disease found in mammals, esp horses
  • boron carbide — a black extremely hard inert substance having a high capture cross section for thermal neutrons. It is used as an abrasive, refractory, and in control rods in nuclear reactors. Formula: B4C
  • bounce around — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
  • boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
  • boundary peak — a peak in SW Nevada, in the White Mountains, near the California border: highest elevation in Nevada. 13,143 feet (4006 meters).
  • bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
  • 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.
  • brand manager — the person responsible for the marketing of a particular brand
  • branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
  • brandy butter — butter and sugar creamed together with brandy and served with Christmas pudding, etc
  • 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.
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