13-letter words containing b, e, d, l
- double-double — a cup of coffee served with two helpings of cream and sugar
- double-dumped — (of a wool bale) compressed, with two bales occupying the volume-equivalent of one ordinary bale
- double-duplex — (communications) (From telegraphy) A full-duplex link with two telegraphers (a sender and a receiver) at each end, to simultaneously transmit in both directions. Compare: single-duplex.
- double-figure — double-digit.
- double-glazed — of, having, or provided with double glazing: double-glazed windows and doors.
- double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- double-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
- double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
- double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
- double-tailed — (of a lion) represented with two tails joined together next to the body.
- double-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- doubtlessness — The property of being doubtless.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- duck-egg blue — a pale greenish-blue colour
- 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.
- dumbfoundedly — In a dumbfounded manner.
- dumdum bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- dumdum-bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- durable press — permanent press.
- east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- eff and blind — to use obscene language
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- embarrassedly — In an embarrassed manner.
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
- enrolled bill — draft legislation approved in identical form by both houses and sent to the President for approval
- excludability — The ability to be excluded.
- expandability — (uncountable) The condition of being expandable.
- expendability — The state or quality of being expendable.
- extendability — Extensibility.
- extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
- feeble-minded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
- flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
- 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
- flexible disk — a flexible removable magnetic disk that stores information and can be used to store data for use in a microprocessor
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- fluidized bed — a bed of fluidized solids used as a heat exchanger or mass transfer medium
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.