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13-letter words containing n, e, r, i, d

  • antidiarrheal — An antidiarrheal is a substance used to prevent or treat diarrhea.
  • antidiuretics — Plural form of antidiuretic.
  • antimodernism — modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern.
  • antimodernist — opposed to modernism
  • apparent wind — (wind), the velocity of air as measured from a moving object, as a ship.
  • archimandrite — the head of a monastery or a group of monasteries
  • aridity index — a number indicating how much more precipitation could be lost by evapotranspiration if it were available than is actually lost at a given location.
  • 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
  • assigned risk — a risk that, under state law, is assigned to an insurer from a pool of insurers who would not otherwise accept it.
  • 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.
  • attitudinizer — One who attitudinizes, or practises poses.
  • audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
  • baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
  • banana spider — a large, yellowish, tropical crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria) occasionally found in bunches of bananas shipped to the Temperate Zones
  • 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
  • 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.
  • batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
  • be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
  • bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
  • bedtime drink — a drink before bed, often made with milk
  • beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
  • beetlebrained — stupid
  • bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
  • benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • bewilderingly — extremely confusing: a bewildering schedule of events.
  • 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
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • binding screw — a screw used to secure one thing to another
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • blind freddie — an imaginary person representing the highest degree of incompetence (esp in the phrase Blind Freddie could see that!)
  • 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 piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • boiled dinner — a meal of meat and vegetables, as of corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes, prepared by boiling.
  • 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
  • boron hydride — borane.
  • 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
  • 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).
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