13-letter words containing b, e, t, i, d
- expandability — (uncountable) The condition of being expandable.
- expendability — The state or quality of being expendable.
- extendability — Extensibility.
- extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
- 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
- fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
- gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
- 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.
- handleability — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
- hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
- impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
- in sb's stead — If you do something in someone's stead, you replace them and do it instead of them.
- incredibility — so extraordinary as to seem impossible: incredible speed.
- indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
- ineducability — Inability to be educated.
- infundibulate — Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular.
- insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- interbreeding — Present participle of interbreed.
- invendibility — the state or quality of being invendible or unsaleable
- inverted snob — a person who scorns the conventions or attitudes of his own class or social group by attempting to identify with people of a supposedly lower class
- italian bread — a crusty, yeast-raised bread made without shortening and unsweetened, usually baked in long, thick loaves with tapered ends.
- itemized bill — invoice giving detailed breakdown of costs
- 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).
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- midnight blue — Something that is midnight blue is a very dark blue colour, almost black.
- midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
- misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
- miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
- mixed ability — A mixed ability class or teaching system is one in which pupils of different abilities are taught together in the same class.
- mobile studio — a van, truck, etc equipped as a recording, broadcasting etc studio
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- national debt — the financial obligations of a national government resulting from deficit spending.
- nimble-footed — able to move the feet agilely and neatly
- non-obligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- nondeductible — Not allowable as a deduction from income for the calculation of taxes.
- nondeliberate — not deliberate or intentional
- nondigestible — Not digestible.
- nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
- obiter dictum — an incidental or passing remark, opinion, etc.
- open-timbered — constructed so that the timbers are exposed.
- orbital index — the ratio of the maximum breadth to the maximum height of the orbital cavity multiplied by 100.