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13-letter words containing s, i, d, e, r

  • bastard-title — Also called bastard title. the first printed page of certain books, appearing after the end papers and before the title page and containing only the title of the book.
  • bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
  • bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
  • bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
  • bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
  • binding screw — a screw used to secure one thing to another
  • biscuit bread — biscuits or a biscuit: I like biscuit bread more than corn bread for supper.
  • biscuit-fired — (of a ceramic object) fired to harden the body.
  • blood blister — a blister filled with blood
  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • borna disease — viral disease found in mammals, esp horses
  • boys' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for boys, founded in 1883, with the aim of promoting discipline and self-respect
  • bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
  • build bridges — to promote reconciliation or cooperation between hostile groups or people
  • 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.
  • called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
  • candleberries — Plural form of candleberry.
  • 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.
  • cardiganshire — a former county of W Wales: became part of Dyfed in 1974; reinstated as Ceredigion in 1996
  • cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • cardioversion — restoring the rhythm of the heart to normal by applying direct-current electrical shock.
  • casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
  • cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • characterised — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
  • chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
  • child process — (operating system)   A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
  • child version — (system management)   In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
  • circumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • commandership — a person who commands.
  • comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
  • computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
  • comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
  • confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
  • confirmedness — The quality of being confirmed.
  • conidiophores — Plural form of conidiophore.
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