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

  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • bodice ripper — You can refer to a film or novel which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes as a bodice ripper, especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
  • bodice-ripper — a modern Gothic novel or historical romance, usually in paperback format, featuring at least one passionate love scene, characteristically one in which the heroine vainly resists submitting to the villain or hero.
  • body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • boiled dinner — a meal of meat and vegetables, as of corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes, prepared by boiling.
  • bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • boite de nuit — boîte.
  • boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
  • border collie — a medium-sized breed of collie with a silky usually black-and-white coat: used mainly as sheepdogs
  • border police — the force in charge of policing a border
  • borna disease — viral disease found in mammals, esp horses
  • boroglyceride — any compound containing boric acid and glycerol, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • boron carbide — a black extremely hard inert substance having a high capture cross section for thermal neutrons. It is used as an abrasive, refractory, and in control rods in nuclear reactors. Formula: B4C
  • boron hydride — borane.
  • boron nitride — a white inert crystalline solid existing both in a graphite-like form and in an extremely hard diamond-like form (borazon). It is used as a refractory, high-temperature lubricant and insulator, and heat shield. Formula: BN
  • borrowed time — an uncertain, usually limited period of time extending beyond or postponing the occurrence of something inevitable.
  • bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
  • boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
  • boys' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for boys, founded in 1883, with the aim of promoting discipline and self-respect
  • brace and bit — a hand tool for boring holes, consisting of a cranked handle into which a drilling bit is inserted
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brain-damaged — Someone who is brain-damaged has suffered brain damage.
  • bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
  • bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • break dancing — a style of dance engaged in by youths, involving acrobatic movements, spinning about on the head or shoulders, etc.
  • break feeding — the feeding of animals on paddocks where feeding space is controlled by the frequent movement of an electric fence
  • break it down — stop it
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • breeding pair — a male and female animal that produce offspring together
  • breidha fjord — an inlet of Denmark Strait on the NW coast of Iceland.
  • bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
  • bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
  • bridge player — a person who plays the game of bridge
  • brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
  • broad-brimmed — (of a hat) having a broad brim
  • broken-winded — suffering from heaves
  • bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
  • brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
  • budget period — the time which a budget covers
  • bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
  • build bridges — to promote reconciliation or cooperation between hostile groups or people
  • building line — the boundary line along a street beyond which buildings must not project
  • building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
  • bullhead rail — a rail having a cross section with a bulbous top and bottom, the top being larger
  • bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
  • busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
  • business card — A person's business card or their card is a small card which they give to other people, and which has their name and details of their job and company printed on it.
  • by definition — If you say that something has a particular quality by definition, you mean that it has this quality simply because of what it is.
  • cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
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