13-letter words containing a, d, i, n, t
- autooxidation — autoxidation.
- avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
- backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
- badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
- balanced diet — a diet consisting of the proper quantities and proportions of foods needed to maintain health or growth.
- bandicoot rat — any of three burrowing rats of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia, of S and SE Asia: family Muridae
- bank discount — interest on a loan deducted from the principal amount when the loan is made and based on the loan's face value
- 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.
- 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)
- batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
- 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
- bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
- bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
- beetlebrained — stupid
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- 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.”.
- bidenticulate — having two small teeth or toothlike processes.
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
- 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
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- brace and bit — a hand tool for boring holes, consisting of a cranked handle into which a drilling bit is inserted
- break it down — stop it
- brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
- british india — the 17 provinces of India formerly governed by the British under the British sovereign: ceased to exist in 1947 when the independent states of India and Pakistan were created
- bud variation — any variation in a bud due to changes in either its genetic composition or environment or both such that the resulting flower, fruit, or shoot differs from others of the same plant or species.
- burt standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- butanoic acid — kind of acid
- camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
- canaliculated — Canaliculate.
- candidate key — (database) One of several possible attributes or combinations of attributes which can be used to uniquely identify a body of information (a "record"). The chosen candidate key is called the primary key.
- candidateship — candidature
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
- candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
- candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
- captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
- carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
- carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
- card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
- cardinalitial — relating to a cardinal or cardinalship
- cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
- carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
- cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
- cased edition — a hardback book sold in a protective box that is open at one edge so that you can see the spine of the book