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13-letter words containing b, e, t, d

  • beg to differ — politely disagree
  • bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
  • bend the knee — to kneel or submit
  • benedict viii — died 1024, pope 1012–24.
  • benedict xiii — (Pietro Francesco Orsini) 1649–1730, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1724–30.
  • benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
  • benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
  • benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • bespottedness — the state of being covered with spots or blemishes
  • bessel method — a method of ascertaining position by the use of a map showing prominent features of the terrain and enabling one to sight through them to obtain a fix.
  • best of breed — The best of breed is the animal that wins first prize in its section at a dog show.
  • bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
  • 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-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
  • billy the kid — nickname of William H. Bonney. 1859–81, US outlaw
  • birthday cake — a special cake eaten at a birthday party
  • biscuit bread — biscuits or a biscuit: I like biscuit bread more than corn bread for supper.
  • biscuit-fired — (of a ceramic object) fired to harden the body.
  • bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
  • bite the dust — to fail completely or cease to exist
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • 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.
  • black-hearted — evil, malicious, or wicked
  • blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
  • blessed event — the birth of a child; also, a newborn child
  • blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
  • blood blister — a blister filled with blood
  • blood brother — A man's blood brother is a man he has sworn to treat as a brother, often in a ceremony which involves mixing a small amount of their blood.
  • blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
  • blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
  • blue verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • body-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points at the centers of the unit cells.
  • boite de nuit — boîte.
  • booby-trapped — (of a building, vehicle, etc) planted with a booby trap
  • border patrol — a government agency in charge of preventing terrorists, weapons, and illegal immigrants entering the country
  • border states — slave states bordering on the free states before the Civil War: Mo., Ky., Va., Md., & Del.
  • boron nitride — a white inert crystalline solid existing both in a graphite-like form and in an extremely hard diamond-like form (borazon). It is used as a refractory, high-temperature lubricant and insulator, and heat shield. Formula: BN
  • borrowed time — an uncertain, usually limited period of time extending beyond or postponing the occurrence of something inevitable.
  • bottle blonde — a woman with dyed blonde hair
  • bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
  • bottled water — water sold in bottles
  • bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
  • bottom feeder — a fish that feeds on material at the bottom of a river, lake, sea, etc
  • bottomset bed — fine sediment deposited at the front of a growing delta
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • brace and bit — a hand tool for boring holes, consisting of a cranked handle into which a drilling bit is inserted
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