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13-letter words containing b, r, i, d, e, t

  • decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
  • decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
  • defibrillated — Simple past tense and past participle of defibrillate.
  • 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.
  • degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.
  • deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
  • deterrability — the quality of being deterrable
  • detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
  • dietary fiber — fiber (def 9).
  • dietary fibre — fibrous substances in fruits and vegetables, such as the structural polymers of cell walls, consumption of which aids digestion and is believed to help prevent certain diseases
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
  • dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
  • distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
  • distributives — Plural form of distributive.
  • divertibility — the capability of being diverted
  • 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.
  • east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
  • field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 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.
  • 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).
  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
  • hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
  • impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
  • incredibility — so extraordinary as to seem impossible: incredible speed.
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • interbreeding — Present participle of interbreed.
  • inverted snob — a person who scorns the conventions or attitudes of his own class or social group by attempting to identify with people of a supposedly lower class
  • italian bread — a crusty, yeast-raised bread made without shortening and unsweetened, usually baked in long, thick loaves with tapered ends.
  • libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
  • marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
  • midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
  • misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
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