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13-letter words containing b, e, r, i, d, a

  • 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
  • direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
  • disagreeables — annoying things
  • dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
  • discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
  • discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
  • discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
  • disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
  • disregardable — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
  • distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
  • diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
  • dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
  • drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
  • 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).
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
  • extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
  • field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
  • gingerbreaded — flavoured with gingerbread
  • good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
  • 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.
  • heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
  • hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
  • indescribable — not describable; too extraordinary for description: a scene of indescribable confusion; indescribable euphoria.
  • indescribably — not describable; too extraordinary for description: a scene of indescribable confusion; indescribable euphoria.
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • irredeemables — undated government or debenture stock
  • italian bread — a crusty, yeast-raised bread made without shortening and unsweetened, usually baked in long, thick loaves with tapered ends.
  • liberalminded — Having a liberal opinion or stance.
  • 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).
  • lipid bilayer — a two-layered arrangement of phosphate and lipid molecules that form a cell membrane, the hydrophobic lipid ends facing inward and the hydrophilic phosphate ends facing outward.
  • marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
  • medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
  • middlebreaker — lister1 (def 1).
  • millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
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