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13-letter words containing s, d

  • borna disease — viral disease found in mammals, esp horses
  • bottomset bed — fine sediment deposited at the front of a growing delta
  • bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
  • boundary scan — The use of scan registers to capture state from device input and output pins. IEEE Standard 1149.1-1990 describes the international standard implementation (sometimes called JTAG after the Joint Test Action Group which began the standardisation work).
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • boys' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for boys, founded in 1883, with the aim of promoting discipline and self-respect
  • braggadocious — boastful
  • branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
  • brass foundry — a foundry that makes things from brass
  • brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
  • bretton woods — resort in the White Mountains, N.H.: site of a United Nations monetary conference (1944) at which the International Monetary Fund was established
  • bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
  • 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.
  • bristol board — a heavy smooth cardboard of fine quality, used for printing and drawing
  • 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
  • broadly based — Something that is broadly based involves many different kinds of things or people.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
  • build bridges — to promote reconciliation or cooperation between hostile groups or people
  • 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.
  • bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
  • 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.
  • bustard quail — button quail.
  • bustard-quail — any of several birds of the family Turnicidae, of warmer parts of the Old World, resembling but not related to the true quail. Also called bustard quail, hemipode.
  • buzzard's bay — an inlet of the Atlantic, in SE Massachusetts. 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • by (all) odds — by far; unquestionably
  • cactus dahlia — a double-flowered variety of dahlia
  • cakes and ale — the good things of life; worldly pleasures
  • called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
  • canada balsam — a yellow transparent resin obtained from the balsam fir. Because its refractive index is similar to that of glass, it is used as an adhesive in optical devices and as a mounting medium for microscope specimens
  • candidateship — candidature
  • candle grease — the wax which is used in the manufacture of candles
  • candleberries — Plural form of candleberry.
  • candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
  • candlesnuffer — an implement, or person, that extinguishes candle flames
  • candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
  • candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
  • candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
  • cap and bells — the traditional garb of a court jester, including a cap with bells attached to it
  • capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
  • capsaicinoids — Plural form of capsaicinoid.
  • captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
  • caraway seeds — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of the caraway plant, used in cooking and in medicine
  • carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
  • cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
  • cardinal fish — a small brightly coloured fish found in shallow tropical seas, of the family Apogonidae, the male of which often broods eggs in its mouth
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