13-letter words containing b, l, a, u, d
- dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
- double batten — two wooden battens screwed together for holding the edge of a drop between them.
- double dagger — a mark (‡) used for references, as footnotes.
- double garage — a garage that can hold two vehicles
- double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
- double paddle — a paddle with a blade at each end, as that of the kayak.
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
- double whammy — twofold misfortune
- 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-glazed — of, having, or provided with double glazing: double-glazed windows and doors.
- double-header — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- double-tailed — (of a lion) represented with two tails joined together next to the body.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- 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.
- duplicability — The quality of being duplicable.
- durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- durable press — permanent press.
- 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.
- endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
- excludability — The ability to be excluded.
- extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
- faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
- harold burton — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
- hubli-dharwad — a city in Karnataka, SW India: the union of two cities, Hubli and Dharwar.
- hubli-dharwar — city in SW India: pop. 648,000
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- ile du diable — French name of Devil's Island.
- inconcludable — Impossible to conclude; unfinishable.
- indissuadable — incapable of being dissuaded
- indissuadably — in an indissuadable way
- ineducability — Inability to be educated.
- infundibulate — Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular.
- labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
- lavender-blue — coloured between blue and pale or light bluish-purple to a very pale violet colour
- mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
- millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
- oil-based mud — Oil-based mud is a drilling fluid that is an emulsion containing oil as the base fluid.
- old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
- organ-builder — a maker of organs
- polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
- premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
- public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
- quodlibetical — a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.