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13-letter words containing b, l, o, d, t, e

  • drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
  • flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
  • gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • lonsdale belt — (in Britain) a belt conferred as a trophy on professional boxing champions, in various weight categories: if a champion wins it three times it becomes his personal property
  • metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
  • mobile studio — a van, truck, etc equipped as a recording, broadcasting etc studio
  • mottled umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Erannis defoliaria, whose looper larvae can strip branches and even trees
  • national debt — the financial obligations of a national government resulting from deficit spending.
  • nimble-footed — able to move the feet agilely and neatly
  • non-adaptable — capable of being adapted.
  • 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
  • nondepletable — not depletable
  • nondetachable — Not capable of being detached.
  • nondigestible — Not digestible.
  • on the double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • orbital index — the ratio of the maximum breadth to the maximum height of the orbital cavity multiplied by 100.
  • particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • potbelly wood — a load of firewood, approximately half a cord, cut in lengths of 16 inches (40 cm) or less for use in a potbelly stove.
  • quodlibetical — a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • rialto bridge — a bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, liking Rialto Island with San Marco Island
  • second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • table--d-hote — a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
  • the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
  • thiabendazole — a drug used as an antifungal treatment and as an anthelmintic
  • triple double — a score in a basketball game of at least ten points, ten rebounds, and ten assists by a single player.
  • triple-double — a score in a basketball game of at least ten points, ten rebounds, and ten assists by a single player.
  • unmetabolised — not metabolised
  • unmetabolized — not metabolized
  • unobliterated — to blot out or render undecipherable (writing, marks, etc.); efface.
  • unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
  • wild bergamot — a plant, Monarda fistulosa, of the mint family, native to eastern North America, having a rounded cluster of lilac-colored or purple flowers, growing in dry places.
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