13-letter words containing b, e, t, d
- brandy butter — butter and sugar creamed together with brandy and served with Christmas pudding, etc
- break it down — stop it
- bretton woods — resort in the White Mountains, N.H.: site of a United Nations monetary conference (1944) at which the International Monetary Fund was established
- bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
- brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
- broad hatchet — a hatchet with a broad cutting edge.
- brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- bucket ladder — a series of buckets that move in a continuous chain, used to dredge riverbeds, etc, or to excavate land
- budget period — the time which a budget covers
- budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
- bullet-headed — with a head shaped like a bullet
- bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
- buttoned-down — conventional or conservative
- butyraldehyde — a colourless flammable pungent liquid used in the manufacture of resins. Formula: CH3(CH2)2CHO
- by definition — If you say that something has a particular quality by definition, you mean that it has this quality simply because of what it is.
- captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
- cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
- chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
- child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
- citizens band — a two-way radio service (Citizens Radio Service) licensed by the FCC to a U.S. citizen for short-distance personal or business communications between fixed or mobile stations. Abbreviation: CB.
- comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
- conditionable — able to be conditioned
- coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
- cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
- counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
- covalent bond — a type of chemical bond involving the sharing of electrons between atoms in a molecule, esp the sharing of a pair of electrons by two adjacent atoms
- credibilities — the quality of being believable or worthy of trust: After all those lies, his credibility was at a low ebb.
- credit bureau — an agency that is a clearinghouse for information on the credit rating of individuals or firms
- creditability — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
- crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
- daytona beach — a city in NE Florida, on the Atlantic: a resort with a beach of hard white sand, used since 1903 for motor speed trials. Pop: 64 581 (2003 est)
- dead-beat dad — a father who neglects his responsibilities as a parent, esp. one who does not pay child support to his estranged wife.
- death benefit — the benefit payable if the holder of a life insurance policy dies before the policy matures
- death chamber — a room in which someone has died
- deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
- debit account — a bank account which allows you to buy goods or services with money that you have put into the account
- debit balance — the amount of money owed to a lender, etc
- debt covenant — A debt covenant is a number of restrictions that a borrower agrees to that are set by the lending institution.
- debt of honor — a gambling debt: not legally enforceable
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
- decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
- decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
- deceptibility — the ability to be deceived
- deception bed — any of various kinds of concealed or disguised beds designed in the 18th century.