13-letter words containing a, t, b, r
- cross the bar — to die
- crystal habit — the external shape of a crystal
- curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
- currant borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Ramosia tipuliformis, that bores into the stems of currants.
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- cyanobacteria — a group of photosynthetic bacteria (phylum Cyanobacteria) containing a blue photosynthetic pigment
- cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
- cybernetician — an expert in cybernetics
- cybersquatter — the registration of a commercially valuable Internet domain name, as a trademark, with the intention of selling it or profiting from its use.
- cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
- death chamber — a room in which someone has died
- deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
- decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
- decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
- decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
- decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
- defibrillated — Simple past tense and past participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- deterrability — the quality of being deterrable
- detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
- dietary fiber — fiber (def 9).
- dietary fibre — fibrous substances in fruits and vegetables, such as the structural polymers of cell walls, consumption of which aids digestion and is believed to help prevent certain diseases
- dinoturbation — the effect or process of trampling and major disturbance to sedimentary rock layers caused by the movement of dinosaurs
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
- discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
- east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
- east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).