13-letter words containing d, e, b, i
- bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
- beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
- beetlebrained — stupid
- beg to differ — politely disagree
- belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
- bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
- benedict viii — died 1024, pope 1012–24.
- benedict xiii — (Pietro Francesco Orsini) 1649–1730, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1724–30.
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
- bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
- bewilderingly — extremely confusing: a bewildering schedule of events.
- beyond belief — You use beyond belief to emphasize that something is true to a very great degree or that it happened to a very great degree.
- biased sample — a statistical sample in which the items selected share some property which influences their distribution
- 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
- bidenticulate — having two small teeth or toothlike processes.
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
- big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
- billy the kid — nickname of William H. Bonney. 1859–81, US outlaw
- binding screw — a screw used to secure one thing to another
- 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.
- birthday cake — a special cake eaten at a birthday party
- biscuit bread — biscuits or a biscuit: I like biscuit bread more than corn bread for supper.
- biscuit-fired — (of a ceramic object) fired to harden the body.
- bishop's weed — goutweed.
- bishop's-weed — goutweed.
- bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
- bite the dust — to fail completely or cease to exist
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- black disease — an infectious necrotic hepatitis in sheep and occasionally cattle caused by toxins produced by infection with species of Clostridial. Secondary to liver fluke infestation, the disease is characterized by sudden death. So-called because of the black discolouration of subcutaneous tissues due to congestion and haemorrhage seen at post-mortem
- black studies — a program of studies in black history and culture offered by a school or college, often including Afro-American history and black literature.
- black-a-vised — having a dark complexion.
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
- bleeding edge — If you are at the bleeding edge of a particular field of activity, you are involved in its most advanced or most exciting developments.
- blind freddie — an imaginary person representing the highest degree of incompetence (esp in the phrase Blind Freddie could see that!)
- blood blister — a blister filled with blood
- blood profile — a diagnostic test that determines the exact numbers of each type of blood cell in a fixed quantity of blood. Abbreviation: CBC.
- blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- blood-profile — a diagnostic test that determines the exact numbers of each type of blood cell in a fixed quantity of blood. Abbreviation: CBC.
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- bloody-minded — If you say that someone is being bloody-minded, you are showing that you disapprove of their behaviour because you think they are being deliberately difficult instead of being helpful.
- bloomfieldian — Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.
- blue verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization