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15-letter words containing ed

  • bedroom slipper — a soft shoe worn in the house
  • bedsheet ballot — a very long, involved paper ballot
  • bedtime reading — a book, magazine etc read at bedtime
  • belted sandfish — a sea bass, Serranus subligarius, inhabiting warm, shallow waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • bevelled mirror — a mirror with a bevelled edge
  • bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
  • bitmapped image — a computer image that is held in memory as a series of colored dots in a grid, each dot represented by one or more bits.
  • blended whiskey — whiskey that is a blend of straight whiskey and neutral spirits or of two or more straight whiskeys
  • blessed trinity — Trinity (def 1).
  • blocked records — (storage)   Several records written as a contiguous block on magnetic tape so that they may be accessed in a single I/O operation. Blocking increases the amount of data that may be stored on a tape because there are fewer inter-block gaps. It requires that the tape drive or processor have a sufficiently large buffer to store the whole block.
  • blue-eyed grass — any of various mainly North American iridaceous marsh plants of the genus Sisyrinchium that have grasslike leaves and small flat starlike blue flowers
  • board-certified — A doctor who is board-certified has passed tests and meets the standards of a board of specialists in their area of medicine.
  • boiled dressing — a cooked salad dressing thickened with egg yolks and often containing mustard.
  • boiled potatoes — potatoes, usually peeled, cooked in boiling water
  • bottled in bond — stored in bonded warehouses for a stated length of time before being bottled, as some whiskey
  • boustrophedonic — of or relating to lines written in opposite directions
  • breeder reactor — a type of nuclear reactor that produces more fissionable material than it consumes
  • breeding ground — If you refer to a situation or place as a breeding ground for something bad such as crime, you mean that this thing can easily develop in that situation or place.
  • breeding season — the time of year during which animals breed
  • broken pediment — a pediment, as over a doorway or window, having its raking cornice interrupted at the crown or apex.
  • bronzed grackle — the western subspecies of the American bird, the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula versicolor, having bronzy, iridescent plumage.
  • bulldog edition — the early edition of a morning newspaper, chiefly for out-of-town distribution
  • buried treasure — A surprising piece of code found in some program. While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty to bletcherous, and has lain undiscovered only because it was functionally correct, however horrible it is. Used sarcastically, because what is found is anything *but* treasure. Buried treasure almost always needs to be dug up and removed. "I just found that the scheduler sorts its queue using bubble sort! Buried treasure!"
  • bury st edmunds — a market town in E England, in Suffolk. Pop: 36 218 (2001)
  • butter-fingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • butterfly wedge — a wooden fastening in the form of a double dovetail for joining two boards at their edges.
  • calcined baryta — baryta (def 1).
  • calcined-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
  • calculated risk — a chance of failure, the probability of which is estimated before some action is undertaken.
  • camphorated oil — a liniment consisting of camphor and peanut oil, used as a counterirritant
  • canada moonseed — a vine, Menispermum canadense, of eastern North America, having variable leaves and black, grapelike fruit.
  • castellated nut — a nut that has indentations similar to battlements
  • cathedral choir — the choir, traditionally consisting of boys and men, that sings in cathedral services
  • cathedral glass — a semitransparent sheet of rolled glass having a decorative pattern.
  • cattle breeding — the science or business of breeding and raising cattle
  • centipede grass — a slow-growing grass, Eremochloa ophiuroides, introduced into the U.S. from China and used for lawns in warm areas.
  • certified check — A certified check is a check that is guaranteed by a bank, because the bank has set aside sufficient money in the account.
  • chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
  • chicken-livered — timid; fearful; cowardly.
  • chinese crested — a small dog of a Chinese breed having long slender legs and a hairless body with hair only on the feet, head, and tail
  • choledochostomy — formation of a temporary opening through the abdominal wall into the common bile duct, usually to remove stones.
  • chopped almonds — almonds cut into small pieces
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • circumambulated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumambulate.
  • circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
  • citrus red mite — a large mite, Panonychus citri, that is an important pest of citrus.
  • clearheadedness — The quality of being clearheaded.
  • closed fracture — simple fracture.
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