13-letter words containing b, a, l, d
- banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
- bar billiards — a table game in pubs, etc, in which short cues are used to pocket balls into holes scoring various points and guarded by wooden pegs that incur penalties if they are knocked over
- bar-and-grill — a place where food and alcoholic drinks are served to customers; a combined barroom and grillroom.
- barbados aloe — a tropical aloe, Aloe barbadensis (or A. vera), of the lily family, having clusters of yellow flowers: its juice is used medicinally.
- 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.
- barred spiral — a spiral galaxy in which the arms originate at the ends of a bar-shaped nucleus
- barrel-shaped — having the shape of a barrel
- basel accords — the three sets of rules, Basel I, Basel II, and Basel III, for regulating the banking industry, drawn up by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
- bastard title — half title (def 1).
- bastard-title — Also called bastard title. the first printed page of certain books, appearing after the end papers and before the title page and containing only the title of the book.
- 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.
- bay for blood — If you say that people are baying for blood, you mean that they are demanding that someone should be hurt or punished.
- be wild about — If you are wild about someone or something, you like them very much.
- beached whale — large sea mammal stranded on shore
- 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.
- beaded lizard — a large, stout-bodied, venomous lizard, Heloderma horridum, inhabiting western Mexico, having black, beadlike scales with yellow to pinkish spots and splotches.
- beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- bedding plane — the surface separating two successive layers of stratified rock
- 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).
- bedside table — a small table beside a bed
- beetle-headed — a stupid person; blockhead.
- beetlebrained — stupid
- belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
- 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.
- biased sample — a statistical sample in which the items selected share some property which influences their distribution
- bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
- 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
- big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
- big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- billiard ball — a hard ball used in billiards
- billiard room — a room in a house, club, etc., where billiards is played.
- biodegradable — Something that is biodegradable breaks down or decays naturally without any special scientific treatment, and can therefore be thrown away without causing pollution.
- birthday girl — the girl or woman whose birthday is being celebrated
- 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 disease — an infectious necrotic hepatitis in sheep and occasionally cattle caused by toxins produced by infection with species of Clostridial. Secondary to liver fluke infestation, the disease is characterized by sudden death. So-called because of the black discolouration of subcutaneous tissues due to congestion and haemorrhage seen at post-mortem
- black mustard — a Eurasian plant, Brassica (or Sinapsis) nigra, with clusters of yellow flowers and pungent seeds from which the condiment mustard is made: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- black pudding — Black pudding is a thick sausage which has a black skin and is made from pork fat and pig's blood.
- black studies — a program of studies in black history and culture offered by a school or college, often including Afro-American history and black literature.