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13-letter words containing n, o, a, d

  • autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
  • autooxidation — autoxidation.
  • autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
  • awning window — a window frame having one or more sashes hinged at the top and swinging outward.
  • back-end load — the final charges of commission and expenses made by an investment trust, insurance policy, etc, when the investor is paid out
  • backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
  • backgrounding — Present participle of background.
  • backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
  • badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
  • bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
  • baker's dozen — thirteen
  • baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
  • balloon shade — a window shade that when raised is gathered into a series of puffy festoons created by inverted pleats in the fabric.
  • band together — If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
  • bandicoot rat — any of three burrowing rats of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia, of S and SE Asia: family Muridae
  • bank discount — interest on a loan deducted from the principal amount when the loan is made and based on the loan's face value
  • barnacle code — (programming, humour)   Any piece of code (usually a static method) that has been appended to a class where it doesn't logically belong, due to a lack of anywhere else to put it.
  • barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
  • batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • bay of gdańsk — a wide inlet of the Baltic Sea on the N coast of Poland
  • be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
  • 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.
  • bed and board — sleeping accommodation and meals
  • benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
  • benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
  • 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.
  • biconditional — (of a proposition) asserting that the existence or occurrence of one thing or event depends on, and is dependent on, the existence or occurrence of another, as “A if and only if B.”.
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
  • bits and bobs — Bits and bobs are small objects or parts of something.
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • black diamond — coal (sense 1)
  • blood diamond — a diamond sold to help finance a military campaign
  • blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
  • bloody sunday — (in Northern Ireland) 30th January 1972, when British soldiers shot dead thirteen marchers in Londonderry who were protesting against the UK government's policy of internment
  • 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 card — A boarding card is a card which a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • boarding pass — A boarding pass is a card that a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • body and soul — You use body and soul to mean every part of you, including your mind and your emotions.
  • 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
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