13-letter words containing o, d, n
- audio-lingual — pertaining to listening comprehension and speaking, especially in learning a foreign language.
- austin dobson — (Henry) Austin, 1840–1921, English poet, biographer, and essayist.
- 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
- bedroom scene — a scene in which lovers are in bed
- beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
- 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.
- bespottedness — the state of being covered with spots or blemishes
- 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 belief — You use beyond belief to emphasize that something is true to a very great degree or that it happened to a very great degree.
- beyond number — too numerous to be counted
- 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
- bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
- 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)
- blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
- blood diamond — a diamond sold to help finance a military campaign
- blood pudding — Blood pudding is another word for black pudding.
- blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.