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13-letter words containing d, a, r, b

  • banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
  • bandicoot rat — any of three burrowing rats of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia, of S and SE Asia: family Muridae
  • bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
  • bar billiards — a table game in pubs, etc, in which short cues are used to pocket balls into holes scoring various points and guarded by wooden pegs that incur penalties if they are knocked over
  • bar-and-grill — a place where food and alcoholic drinks are served to customers; a combined barroom and grillroom.
  • barbados aloe — a tropical aloe, Aloe barbadensis (or A. vera), of the lily family, having clusters of yellow flowers: its juice is used medicinally.
  • barefacedness — The state or quality of being barefaced.
  • barnacle code — (programming, humour)   Any piece of code (usually a static method) that has been appended to a class where it doesn't logically belong, due to a lack of anywhere else to put it.
  • barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
  • barred spiral — a spiral galaxy in which the arms originate at the ends of a bar-shaped nucleus
  • barrel-shaped — having the shape of a barrel
  • basel accords — the three sets of rules, Basel I, Basel II, and Basel III, for regulating the banking industry, drawn up by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
  • basidiospores — Plural form of basidiospore.
  • basket dinner — a group social gathering, as of church members, to which participants contribute casseroles or other dishes to share.
  • bastard amber — a color of gelatin commonly used in stage lighting, similar to light amber but having a pinkish cast.
  • bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
  • bastard title — half title (def 1).
  • bastard-title — Also called bastard title. the first printed page of certain books, appearing after the end papers and before the title page and containing only the title of the book.
  • bat-eared fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
  • battered wife — See under battered woman syndrome.
  • batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • bay for blood — If you say that people are baying for blood, you mean that they are demanding that someone should be hurt or punished.
  • be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
  • bead and reel — a convex molding having the form of elongated beads alternating with disks placed edge-on, or with spherical beads, or with both.
  • beaded lizard — a large, stout-bodied, venomous lizard, Heloderma horridum, inhabiting western Mexico, having black, beadlike scales with yellow to pinkish spots and splotches.
  • bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
  • beat the drum — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
  • beauty editor — the person in charge of a section of newspaper or magazine devoted to cosmetics, etc
  • bed and board — sleeping accommodation and meals
  • bedroom farce — a light comedy about sexual relationships
  • beetlebrained — stupid
  • benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • bermuda grass — a widely distributed grass, Cynodon dactylon, with wiry creeping rootstocks and several purplish spikes of flowers arising from a single point: used for lawns, pasturage, binding sand dunes, etc
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
  • bib and brace — a work garment consisting of trousers and an upper front part supported by straps over the shoulders
  • bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
  • bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
  • billiard ball — a hard ball used in billiards
  • billiard room — a room in a house, club, etc., where billiards is played.
  • biodegradable — Something that is biodegradable breaks down or decays naturally without any special scientific treatment, and can therefore be thrown away without causing pollution.
  • bird of peace — a dove.
  • bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
  • birthday bash — a birthday party
  • birthday cake — a special cake eaten at a birthday party
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