13-letter words containing b, e, t
- digital badge — a title or icon associated with a user profile or account that attests to the attainment of a skill or rank or the completion of an objective, as on an educational or social media website or a gaming platform.
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- direct object — a word or group of words representing the person or thing upon which the action of a verb is performed or toward which it is directed: in English, generally coming after the verb, without a preposition. In He saw it the pronoun it is the direct object of saw.
- disambiguated — Simple past tense and past participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disambiguate.
- disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
- disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
- discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
- discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- disembodiment — to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
- dishabilitate — to disqualify
- dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
- disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
- disobligement — disobligation
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distributives — Plural form of distributive.
- disubstituted — containing two substituents.
- divertibility — the capability of being diverted
- diving beetle — any of numerous predaceous water beetles of the family Dytiscidae, having the body adapted for swimming.
- double batten — two wooden battens screwed together for holding the edge of a drop between them.
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
- double-bottom — tandem trailer (def 1).
- double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- double-dotted — (of a note) increased to one and three quarters of its original time value by the addition of two dots
- 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.
- doubtlessness — The property of being doubtless.
- down the tube — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- 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.
- drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- 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.
- 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.
- east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
- east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
- east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
- east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
- easter bonnet — an especially pretty or fancy hat designed for a woman to wear to church on Easter Sunday or, especially, in an Easter parade
- eating habits — the way a person or group eats, considered in terms of what types of food are eaten, in what quantities, and when
- ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
- eggs benedict — dish of poached eggs, ham and cream
- electric blue — Something that is electric blue is very bright blue in colour.
- electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed