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13-letter words containing b, a, t, r, d

  • 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 kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
  • faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
  • featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.
  • ferret badger — any of several small omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.
  • field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
  • flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
  • fort dearborn — a former U.S. fort on the site of Chicago, 1803–37.
  • great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
  • grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
  • harold burton — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
  • hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
  • hybridization — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
  • hydroboration — (chemistry) the production or organoboranes by the addition of diborane to unsaturated organic compounds.
  • impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
  • inboard motor — a boat's motor that is situated within the hull
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • italian bread — a crusty, yeast-raised bread made without shortening and unsweetened, usually baked in long, thick loaves with tapered ends.
  • larder beetle — a black beetle, Dermestes lardarius, the larvae of which feed on dried meats, hides, furs, etc.
  • libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
  • madhya bharat — a former state of central India; now included in Madhya Pradesh.
  • malted barley — barley that has been kiln-dried after it has germinated by soaking in water
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