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13-letter words containing b, t, r

  • 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.
  • deutocerebrum — (zoology) The median lobes of the brain of an insect.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • disobligatory — not obligatory
  • distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
  • distributions — Plural form of distribution.
  • 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
  • draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
  • draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • 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 berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
  • east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
  • east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
  • easter bonnet — an especially pretty or fancy hat designed for a woman to wear to church on Easter Sunday or, especially, in an Easter parade
  • electric blue — Something that is electric blue is very bright blue in colour.
  • electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed
  • electron tube — (electronics)   (Or tube, vacuum tube, UK: valve, electron valve, thermionic valve, firebottle, glassfet) An electronic component consisting of a space exhausted of gas to such an extent that electrons may move about freely, and two or more electrodes with external connections. Nearly all tubes are of the thermionic type where one electrode, called the cathode, is heated, and electrons are emitted from its surface with a small energy (typically a Volt or less). A second electrode, called the anode (plate) will attract the electrons when it is positive with respect to the cathode, allowing current in one direction but not the other. In types which are used for amplification of signals, additional electrodes, called grids, beam-forming electrodes, focussing electrodes and so on according to their purpose, are introduced between cathode and plate and modify the flow of electrons by electrostatic attraction or (usually) repulsion. A voltage change on a grid can control a substantially greater change in that between cathode and anode. Unlike semiconductors, except perhaps for FETs, the movement of electrons is simply a function of electrostatic field within the active region of the tube, and as a consequence of the very low mass of the electron, the currents can be changed quickly. Moreover, there is no limit to the current density in the space, and the electrodes which do dissapate power are usually metal and can be cooled with forced air, water, or other refrigerants. Today these features cause tubes to be the active device of choice when the signals to be amplified are a power levels of more than about 500 watts. The first electronic digital computers used hundreds of vacuum tubes as their active components which, given the reliability of these devices, meant the computers needed frequent repairs to keep them operating. The chief causes of unreliability are the heater used to heat the cathode and the connector into which the tube was plugged. Vacuum tube manufacturers in the US are nearly a thing of the past, with the exception of the special purpose types used in broadcast and image sensing and displays. Eimac, GE, RCA, and the like would probably refer to specific types such as "Beam Power Tetrode" and the like, and rarely use the generic terms. The cathode ray tube is a special purpose type based on these principles which is used for the visual display in television and computers. X-ray tubes are diodes (two element tubes) used at high voltage; a tungsten anode emits the energetic photons when the energetic electrons hit it. Magnetrons use magnetic fields to constrain the electrons; they provide very simple, high power, ultra-high frequency signals for radar, microwave ovens, and the like. Klystrons amplify signals at high power and microwave frequencies.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • embarrassment — A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
  • embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
  • embranglement — Embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled.
  • embrittlement — The characteristic or process of being embrittled.
  • embryogenetic — embryogenic
  • emtricitabine — A nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor for the treatment of HIV infection.
  • enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
  • equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
  • equilibration — The formation, or maintenance, of an equilibrium.
  • equilibratory — Relating to the physical sense of balance, or equilibrium.
  • equilibristic — Of or pertaining to equilibristics.
  • erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
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