13-letter words containing s, e, n, t, i, a
- bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
- banister back — a back of a chair or the like, usually having semicircular spindles between the top rail and the cross rail or seat.
- bantamweights — Plural form of bantamweight.
- baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
- basket dinner — a group social gathering, as of church members, to which participants contribute casseroles or other dishes to share.
- bass clarinet — a clarinet with the lowest range, in the octave below the B-flat clarinet
- bass-baritone — a singer or voice in the bass range with baritone qualities
- bassenthwaite — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria near Keswick. Length: 6 km (4 miles)
- bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
- be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
- beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- benjamin west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
- bering strait — a strait between Alaska and Russia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean
- bicentennials — pertaining to or in honor of a 200th anniversary: bicentennial celebration; a bicentennial exposition.
- binary system — a system involving only two elements, as 0 and 1 or yes and no.
- birth parents — a child's biological parents, regardless of whether they subsequently bring up the child
- bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
- black section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- brain truster — a member of a brain trust; an important but usually unofficial adviser.
- brief against — If someone, especially a politician, briefs against another person, he or she tries to harm the other person's reputation by saying something unfavourable about them.
- bus mastering — bus master
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- by its nature — If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
- cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
- cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
- callisthenics — light exercises designed to promote general fitness, develop muscle tone, etc
- caltanissetta — a city in central Sicily: sulphur mines. Pop: 61 438 (2001)
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- cancellations — Plural form of cancellation.
- candidateship — candidature
- 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.
- captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
- case in point — a specific, appropriate, or relevant instance or example
- cased edition — a hardback book sold in a protective box that is open at one edge so that you can see the spine of the book
- castellations — Defensive or decorative parapets with regularly spaced notches; battlements.
- caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
- casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
- cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
- cayenne-whist — a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana.
- centenionalis — a silver coin of ancient Rome, first issued by Diocletian as the 100th part of a solidus, later greatly debased.
- central asian — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Asia