13-letter words containing nd
- baffin island — the largest island of the Canadian Arctic, between Greenland and Hudson Bay. Area: 476 560 sq km (184 000 sq miles)
- bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
- balanced fund — a mutual fund made up of both stocks and bonds
- ball and ring — a simplified bead-and-reel turning, used especially in English and American furniture of the 17th century.
- ball handling — the control of the ball, as in basketball or soccer, by skillful dribbling and accurate passing.
- banana bender — a native or inhabitant of Queensland
- 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.
- band-aid baby — a child conceived to strengthen a faltering relationship
- 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.
- batan islands — a group of islands in the Philippines, north of Luzon. Capital: Basco. Pop: 16 467 (2000). Area: 197 sq km (76 sq miles)
- 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
- 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.
- beat the band — a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
- bed and board — sleeping accommodation and meals
- beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
- belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
- bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
- bend the knee — to kneel or submit
- beyond a joke — If you say that an annoying or worrying situation is beyond a joke, you are emphasizing that it is worse than you think is fair or reasonable.
- beyond belief — You use beyond belief to emphasize that something is true to a very great degree or that it happened to a very great degree.
- beyond number — too numerous to be counted
- 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
- biconditional — (of a proposition) asserting that the existence or occurrence of one thing or event depends on, and is dependent on, the existence or occurrence of another, as “A if and only if B.”.
- binding screw — a screw used to secure one thing to another
- bits and bobs — Bits and bobs are small objects or parts of something.
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- black and tan — a mixture of stout or porter and ale
- black diamond — coal (sense 1)
- black-and-tan — (of a dog) of a black color with tan markings above the eyes and on the muzzle, chest, legs, feet, and breech.
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- blind freddie — an imaginary person representing the highest degree of incompetence (esp in the phrase Blind Freddie could see that!)
- blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
- blood diamond — a diamond sold to help finance a military campaign
- 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
- bloody-minded — If you say that someone is being bloody-minded, you are showing that you disapprove of their behaviour because you think they are being deliberately difficult instead of being helpful.
- body and soul — You use body and soul to mean every part of you, including your mind and your emotions.
- bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
- bonin islands — a group of 27 volcanic islands in the W Pacific: occupied by the US after World War II; returned to Japan in 1968. Largest island: Chichijima. Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles)
- boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
- boots and all — making every effort; with no holds barred
- bottle blonde — a woman with dyed blonde hair
- 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.