13-letter words containing u, n, a, d
- autooxidation — autoxidation.
- autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
- backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
- backgrounding — Present participle of background.
- badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
- balanced fund — a mutual fund made up of both stocks and bonds
- band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
- banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- bank discount — interest on a loan deducted from the principal amount when the loan is made and based on the loan's face value
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
- bidenticulate — having two small teeth or toothlike processes.
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- black pudding — Black pudding is a thick sausage which has a black skin and is made from pork fat and pig's blood.
- bloody sunday — (in Northern Ireland) 30th January 1972, when British soldiers shot dead thirteen marchers in Londonderry who were protesting against the UK government's policy of internment
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- body and soul — You use body and soul to mean every part of you, including your mind and your emotions.
- body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
- bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
- boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
- boudoir grand — a domestic grand piano between 5 and 6 feet in length
- bounce around — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
- boundary peak — a peak in SW Nevada, in the White Mountains, near the California border: highest elevation in Nevada. 13,143 feet (4006 meters).
- boundary scan — The use of scan registers to capture state from device input and output pins. IEEE Standard 1149.1-1990 describes the international standard implementation (sometimes called JTAG after the Joint Test Action Group which began the standardisation work).
- bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
- brandy butter — butter and sugar creamed together with brandy and served with Christmas pudding, etc
- brass foundry — a foundry that makes things from brass
- brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
- bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
- bud variation — any variation in a bud due to changes in either its genetic composition or environment or both such that the resulting flower, fruit, or shoot differs from others of the same plant or species.
- bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
- building land — land on which construction can take place
- bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
- burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
- 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.
- 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.
- butanoic acid — kind of acid
- cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
- campaign fund — money for a campaign, as of a political candidate, usually acquired through contributions by supporters.
- canal du midi — a canal in S France, extending from the River Garonne at Toulouse to the Mediterranean at Sète and providing a link between the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts: built between 1666 and 1681. Length: 181 km (150 miles)
- canaliculated — Canaliculate.
- candlesnuffer — an implement, or person, that extinguishes candle flames