13-letter words containing s, i, d, o
- bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
- banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
- bank discount — interest on a loan deducted from the principal amount when the loan is made and based on the loan's face value
- basidiomycete — any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the spores are produced in basidia. The group includes boletes, puffballs, smuts, and rusts
- basidiospores — Plural form of basidiospore.
- 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
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- bill of goods — a list of items for sale, consignment, shipment, etc
- bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
- bishop's weed — goutweed.
- bishop's-weed — goutweed.
- bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
- bits and bobs — Bits and bobs are small objects or parts of something.
- bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
- blood blister — a blister filled with blood
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
- boarding pass — A boarding pass is a card that a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
- body stocking — A body stocking is a piece of clothing that covers the whole of someone's body and fits tightly. Body stockings are often worn by dancers.
- bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- bomb disposal — Bomb disposal is the job of dealing with bombs which have not exploded, by taking out the fuse or by blowing them up in a controlled explosion.
- bonin islands — a group of 27 volcanic islands in the W Pacific: occupied by the US after World War II; returned to Japan in 1968. Largest island: Chichijima. Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles)
- boris godunov — Boris Fedorovich [bawr-is fi-dawr-uh-vich,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs fɪˈdɔr ə vɪtʃ,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1552–1605, regent of Russia 1584–98 and czar 1598–1605.
- 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
- braggadocious — boastful
- brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
- 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
- bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
- capsaicinoids — Plural form of capsaicinoid.
- cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
- cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
- cardioversion — restoring the rhythm of the heart to normal by applying direct-current electrical shock.
- carias andino — Tiburcio [tee-voor-syaw] /tiˈvur syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1968, Honduran lawyer, soldier, and statesman: president 1933–49.
- carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
- 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
- cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
- cash holdings — the assets that you hold in ready cash, as opposed to property, shares, bonds, etc
- 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)
- caxias do sul — a city in S Brazil.
- cell division — the division of a cell into two new cells during growth or reproduction
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old