13-letter words containing d, a, t, e
- aperture card — a punched-card mounting for microfilmed pages.
- apostrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of apostrophize.
- apparent wind — (wind), the velocity of air as measured from a moving object, as a ship.
- appendiculate — having appendicles
- aptitude test — An aptitude test is a test that is specially designed to find out how easily and how well you can do something.
- archimandrite — the head of a monastery or a group of monasteries
- architectured — Designed (according to a form of architecture, or as if by an architect).
- aridity index — a number indicating how much more precipitation could be lost by evapotranspiration if it were available than is actually lost at a given location.
- armistice day — the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I, on Nov 11, 1918, now kept on Remembrance Sunday
- armour-plated — An armour-plated vehicle or building has a hard metal covering in order to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- armstand dive — a dive starting from a handstand at the end of a springboard or a platform with the diver's back to the water.
- arseniuretted — combined with arsenic so as to form an arsenide.
- as opposed to — You use as opposed to when you want to make it clear that you are talking about one particular thing and not something else.
- ascensiontide — the ten days from Ascension Day to the day before Whit Sunday
- asteroid belt — the concentrations of asteroids that move around the sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- at loose ends — in an unsettled, disorganized, or confused condition
- at the double — at twice normal marching speed
- at the fiddle — engaged in an illegal or fraudulent undertaking
- aten asteroid — one of a small group of asteroids whose orbits cross that of the earth and whose semimajor axes are smaller than that of the earth.
- attested form — a linguistic form that can be shown to be in use or in written records
- attested herd — a herd of cattle, etc that has been certified as being free from a disease, esp from tuberculosis
- attitudinized — Simple past tense and past participle of attitudinize.
- attitudinizer — One who attitudinizes, or practises poses.
- attitudinizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attitudinize.
- audiocassette — a cassette containing audiotape
- authenticated — Prove or show (something, esp. a claim or an artistic work) to be true or genuine.
- auto-destruct — self-destruct.
- autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
- autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
- autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
- autoschediaze — to do or act with little forethought or preparation
- bacteriocidal — Alternative spelling of bactericidal.
- balanced diet — a diet consisting of the proper quantities and proportions of foods needed to maintain health or growth.
- balanced step — any of a series of staircase winders so planned that they are nearly as wide at the inside of the stair as the adjacent fliers.
- balanced tree — (algorithm) An optimisation of a tree which aims to keep equal numbers of items on each subtree of each node so as to minimise the maximum path from the root to any leaf node. As items are inserted and deleted, the tree is restructured to keep the nodes balanced and the search paths uniform. Such an algorithm is appropriate where the overheads of the reorganisation on update are outweighed by the benefits of faster search. A B-tree is a kind of balanced tree that can have more than two subtrees at each node (i.e. one that is not restricted to being a binary tree).
- ballet dancer — a man or woman who takes part in ballet dancing, usually professionally
- baltic shield — the wide area of ancient rock in Scandinavia
- band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
- band together — If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
- basidiomycete — any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the spores are produced in basidia. The group includes boletes, puffballs, smuts, and rusts
- 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.
- be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court