13-letter words containing b, i, r, o, d
- cyberchondria — unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one's health brought on by visiting health and medical websites
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
- decarbonizing — Present participle of decarbonize.
- decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- dinoturbation — the effect or process of trampling and major disturbance to sedimentary rock layers caused by the movement of dinosaurs
- 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.
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- distributions — Plural form of distribution.
- double boiler — a utensil consisting of two pots, one of which fits partway into the other: water is boiled in the lower pot to cook or warm food or melt a substance in the upper.
- double bridle — a bridle with four reins coming from a bit with two rings on each side
- double-dipper — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- double-figure — double-digit.
- double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
- drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
- edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- embryoid body — an aggregate of cells that have developed from stem cells
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- enrolled bill — draft legislation approved in identical form by both houses and sent to the President for approval
- flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
- 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.
- forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
- formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- 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).
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- good-neighbor — characterized by friendly political relations and mutual aid between countries.
- grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- hybrid vigour — the increased size, strength, etc, of a hybrid as compared to either of its parents
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- hybridization — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hydroboration — (chemistry) the production or organoboranes by the addition of diborane to unsaturated organic compounds.