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

  • 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.
  • boite de nuit — boîte.
  • bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
  • 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).
  • 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
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • brandy butter — butter and sugar creamed together with brandy and served with Christmas pudding, etc
  • bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
  • brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
  • bûche de noël — a French Christmas cake made from a thin layer of spongecake that is rolled up and frosted so as to resemble a decorative Yule log
  • bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
  • building line — the boundary line along a street beyond which buildings must not project
  • 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.
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
  • bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
  • 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.
  • buttoned-down — conventional or conservative
  • 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.
  • canaliculated — Canaliculate.
  • candlesnuffer — an implement, or person, that extinguishes candle flames
  • 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)
  • center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
  • centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
  • churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • clair de lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
  • clair-de-lune — a work for the piano by Claude Debussy, third movement of the Suite bergamasque.
  • clairaudience — the postulated ability to hear sounds beyond the range of normal hearing
  • 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.
  • coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
  • coeur de lion — Richard I, meaning “lionhearted.”.
  • college-bound — intending to go to college
  • commaundement — Obsolete spelling of commandment.
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • commented out — comment out
  • 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 leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
  • compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
  • compound time — compound meter
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