13-letter words containing s, e, n, t
- 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
- 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.
- bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
- 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.
- bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
- bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
- bunker buster — a laser-guided bomb designed to penetrate deep underground, as into rock or concrete, before detonating.
- bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
- bus mastering — bus master
- business suit — a formal suit suitable for wearing to work
- business trip — a journey made somewhere and back again for business purposes in one's working capacity
- butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- 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
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- 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.
- capstan lathe — a lathe for repetitive work, having a rotatable turret resembling a capstan to hold tools for successive operations
- capstan table — drum table.
- captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
- carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
- 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
- casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- 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.
- cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
- catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
- catch the sun — to become slightly sunburnt
- cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
- cayenne-whist — a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana.
- celestine iii — (Giacinto Bobone) died 1198, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1191–98.
- cement slurry — Cement slurry is a mixture of Portland cement, water, and additives.