13-letter words containing n, a, d, r
- arsenous acid — a toxic white powder, As2O3, used to make other arsenic compounds, insecticides, and preservatives; white arsenic
- arthroconidia — Plural form of arthroconidium.
- arundinaceous — resembling a reed
- assigned risk — a risk that, under state law, is assigned to an insurer from a pool of insurers who would not otherwise accept it.
- astrodynamics — the study of the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space
- at first hand — If you learn or experience something at first hand, you experience it yourself or learn it directly rather than being told about it by other people.
- aten asteroid — one of a small group of asteroids whose orbits cross that of the earth and whose semimajor axes are smaller than that of the earth.
- attitudinizer — One who attitudinizes, or practises poses.
- audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
- autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
- avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
- award-winning — An award-winning person or thing has won an award, especially an important or valuable one.
- backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
- backgrounding — Present participle of background.
- backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
- baker's dozen — thirteen
- baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
- balanced tree — (algorithm) An optimisation of a tree which aims to keep equal numbers of items on each subtree of each node so as to minimise the maximum path from the root to any leaf node. As items are inserted and deleted, the tree is restructured to keep the nodes balanced and the search paths uniform. Such an algorithm is appropriate where the overheads of the reorganisation on update are outweighed by the benefits of faster search. A B-tree is a kind of balanced tree that can have more than two subtrees at each node (i.e. one that is not restricted to being a binary tree).
- ball and ring — a simplified bead-and-reel turning, used especially in English and American furniture of the 17th century.
- ballet dancer — a man or woman who takes part in ballet dancing, usually professionally
- banana bender — a native or inhabitant of Queensland
- banana spider — a large, yellowish, tropical crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria) occasionally found in bunches of bananas shipped to the Temperate Zones
- 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
- band together — If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
- banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
- bandicoot rat — any of three burrowing rats of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia, of S and SE Asia: family Muridae
- bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
- bar-and-grill — a place where food and alcoholic drinks are served to customers; a combined barroom and grillroom.
- barefacedness — The state or quality of being barefaced.
- barnacle code — (programming, humour) Any piece of code (usually a static method) that has been appended to a class where it doesn't logically belong, due to a lack of anywhere else to put it.
- barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
- basket dinner — a group social gathering, as of church members, to which participants contribute casseroles or other dishes to share.
- bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
- batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
- bead and reel — a convex molding having the form of elongated beads alternating with disks placed edge-on, or with spherical beads, or with both.
- bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
- bed and board — sleeping accommodation and meals
- beetlebrained — stupid
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
- bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
- beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
- bib and brace — a work garment consisting of trousers and an upper front part supported by straps over the shoulders
- bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.