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13-letter words containing s, u, n, d

  • bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
  • buridan's ass — an example intended to show the deficiency of reason. An ass standing equidistant from two identical heaps of oats starves to death because reason provides no grounds for choosing to eat one rather than the other
  • burt standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
  • 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.
  • candlesnuffer — an implement, or person, that extinguishes candle flames
  • 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.
  • cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
  • 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
  • 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
  • chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
  • churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • cloudlessness — Absence of clouds.
  • club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
  • compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
  • conduciveness — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
  • conduct sheet — a form for detailing information about a person's offences and punishments
  • conductorship — The position of conductor of an orchestra.
  • condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
  • confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
  • conquistadors — Plural form of conquistador.
  • consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
  • consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.
  • continuedness — the state of being continued
  • cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
  • cotes-du-nord — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • count towards — If something counts towards or counts toward an achievement or right, it is included as one of the things that give you the right to it.
  • counterorders — Plural form of counterorder.
  • counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
  • countersigned — a sign used in reply to another sign.
  • credulousness — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
  • crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
  • crowdsourcing — Crowdsourcing is the practice of getting ideas or help on a project from a large number of people, usually through the Internet.
  • culdocentesis — (medicine) A diagnostic procedure in which fluid from the rectouterine pouch is extracted, via the vagina, using a needle.
  • custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
  • cut and paste — a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
  • cut-and-paste — assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces: The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.
  • cylindraceous — having a form similar to a cylinder
  • dangerousness — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
  • danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
  • dauntlessness — The characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness.
  • debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
  • deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
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