13-letter words containing b, i, n, t
- death benefit — the benefit payable if the holder of a life insurance policy dies before the policy matures
- 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
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
- deception bed — any of various kinds of concealed or disguised beds designed in the 18th century.
- decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
- decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
- defendability — (uncountable) The condition of being defendable.
- defensibility — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- dependability — software reliability
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
- destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
- dinoturbation — the effect or process of trampling and major disturbance to sedimentary rock layers caused by the movement of dinosaurs
- disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
- disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- disembodiment — to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
- disinhibiting — Present participle of disinhibit.
- disinhibition — Psychology. a temporary loss of inhibition caused by an outside stimulus.
- disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
- 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.
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disobligement — disobligation
- disponibility — Availability.
- distributions — Plural form of distribution.
- diving beetle — any of numerous predaceous water beetles of the family Dytiscidae, having the body adapted for swimming.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- dzibilchaltun — a large, ancient Mayan ceremonial and commercial center near Mérida, Mexico, founded perhaps as early as 3000 b.c. and in continuous use until the 16th century.
- east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
- 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
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- embellishment — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
- embrittlement — The characteristic or process of being embrittled.
- embryogenetic — embryogenic