13-letter words containing s, t, e, d
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- border states — slave states bordering on the free states before the Civil War: Mo., Ky., Va., Md., & Del.
- bottomset bed — fine sediment deposited at the front of a growing delta
- boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
- 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
- budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- 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 sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
- called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
- 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.
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
- cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
- 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.
- cash-strapped — If a person or organization is cash-strapped, they do not have enough money to buy or pay for the things they want or need.
- cassette deck — a machine that is used for listening to cassettes and sometimes also for recording them
- castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
- 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 distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
- 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
- center spread — the pair of pages facing each other at the center of a magazine or newspaper, printed and made up as a single unit.
- centre spread — the pair of two facing pages in the middle of a magazine, newspaper, etc, often illustrated
- 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.
- chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
- christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- citizens band — a two-way radio service (Citizens Radio Service) licensed by the FCC to a U.S. citizen for short-distance personal or business communications between fixed or mobile stations. Abbreviation: CB.
- clandestinely — characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious: Their clandestine meetings went undiscovered for two years.
- clandestinity — secrecy; the quality of being clandestine
- 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 at hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close-at-hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- closed stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is positioned closer to the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
- closed system — a region that is isolated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits no transfer of matter or energy across it.
- co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
- coast redwood — the redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.
- coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
- code position — (character) An integer that a coded character set maps to a character. A code position is normally stored or transmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it into a byte string.
- codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
- collectedness — The state or quality of being collected.
- collectivised — Simple past tense and past participle of collectivise.
- colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.