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15-letter words containing nd

  • bait-and-switch — denoting a deceptive method of selling, by which customers, attracted to a store by sale items, are told either that the advertised bargain item is out of stock or is inferior to a higher-priced item that is available.
  • banded anteater — an Australian marsupial, Myrmecobius fasciatus, feeding on termites and having the body marked with whitish transverse bars: nearly extinct.
  • bandpass filter — A bandpass filter is a filter designed to pass all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bank of england — the central bank of the United Kingdom, which acts as banker to the government and the commercial banks. It is responsible for managing the government's debt and implementing its policy on other monetary matters: established in 1694, nationalized in 1946; in 1997 the government restored the authority to set interest rates to the Bank
  • barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
  • basse-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: consists of the Cherbourg peninsula in the west rising to the Normandy hills in the east; mainly agricultural
  • bathurst island — an island off the coast of N Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Archipelago: present south of the North Magnetic Pole nearby. 7609 sq. mi. (19,707 sq. km).
  • be of two minds — to be undecided or irresolute
  • be snowed under — to be overwhelmed, esp with paperwork
  • beat the bounds — (formerly) to define the boundaries of a parish by making a procession around them and hitting the ground with rods
  • bedloe's island — Liberty Island
  • before the wind — with the wind coming from astern
  • belt-and-braces — providing double security, in case one security measure should fail
  • belted sandfish — a sea bass, Serranus subligarius, inhabiting warm, shallow waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • benefit in kind — a nonpecuniary benefit, such as a company car or medical insurance, given to an employee
  • benevolent fund — a charitable organization
  • beyond question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • beyond sb's ken — If something is beyond your ken, you do not have enough knowledge to be able to understand it.
  • beyond the pale — If you think that someone's actions or behaviour are not acceptable, you can say that they are beyond the pale.
  • big sandy creek — a river in central Colorado, flowing NE and SE to the Arkansas River near Lamar: site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. 200 miles (322 km) long.
  • bishop auckland — a town in N England, in central Durham: seat of the bishops of Durham since the 12th century: light industries. Pop: 24 764 (2001)
  • bits and pieces — You can use bits and pieces or bits and bobs to refer to a collection of different things.
  • bits per second — (communications, unit)   (bps, b/s) The unit in which data rate is measured. For example, a modem's data rate is usually measured in kilobits per second. In 1996, the maximum modem speed for use on the PSTN was 33.6 kbps, rising to 56 kbps in 1997. Note that kilo- (k), mega- (M), etc. in data rates denote powers of 1000, not 1024.
  • black and white — In a black and white photograph or film, everything is shown in black, white, and grey.
  • black horehound — a hairy unpleasant-smelling chiefly Mediterranean plant, Ballota nigra, having clusters of purple flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
  • black-and-white — displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph.
  • blended whiskey — whiskey that is a blend of straight whiskey and neutral spirits or of two or more straight whiskeys
  • blending center — A blending center is a place for mixing fluids, gases, and powders.
  • blindman's buff — a game in which a blindfolded player has to catch and identify another player
  • blossom-end rot — a disease of tomato and pepper caused by a deficiency of calcium, characterized by decay at the blossom end of the fruit.
  • blow one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • bobbin and joan — the European arum, Arum maculatum.
  • body mass index — A person's body mass index is a measurement that represents the relationship between their weight and their height.
  • bone conduction — the transmission of sound vibrations to the internal ear through the cranial bones (opposed to air conduction).
  • bottled in bond — stored in bonded warehouses for a stated length of time before being bottled, as some whiskey
  • branch and hang — (humour)   (BRH) Originally a mythical instruction for the IBM 1130 at Indiana University. Later some real examples were discovered. The Texas Instruments TI-980 allowed all addressing modes with all instructions, including Store Immediate Extended (stores the value into the extension word of the instruction) and Branch and Link Immediate (makes a subroutine call to the same instruction -- Branch and Hang). Compare HCF.
  • brand awareness — the extent to which consumers are aware of a particular product or service
  • brand extension — the practice of using a well-known brand name to promote new products or services in unrelated fields
  • bread and honey — money
  • break and entry — breaking and entering.
  • 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.
  • brown-and-serve — requiring only a brief period of browning, as in an oven, before being ready to serve: brown-and-serve rolls.
  • brunner's gland — any of the glands in the submucosal layer of the duodenum, secreting an alkaline fluid into the small intestine.
  • burt l standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
  • bury st edmunds — a market town in E England, in Suffolk. Pop: 36 218 (2001)
  • butter-and-eggs — any of various plants, such as toadflax, the flowers of which are of two shades of yellow
  • cabin attendant — flight attendant.
  • calendarization — the process of calendarizing
  • casement-window — a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
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