13-letter words containing d, e, b, n
- beat the band — a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
- bed and board — sleeping accommodation and meals
- bedding plane — the surface separating two successive layers of stratified rock
- bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
- bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
- bedroom scene — a scene in which lovers are in bed
- bedtime drink — a drink before bed, often made with milk
- beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
- beetlebrained — stupid
- 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
- bend the knee — to kneel or submit
- 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
- berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
- bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
- bespottedness — the state of being covered with spots or blemishes
- bewilderingly — extremely confusing: a bewildering schedule of events.
- beyond a joke — If you say that an annoying or worrying situation is beyond a joke, you are emphasizing that it is worse than you think is fair or reasonable.
- 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.
- beyond number — too numerous to be counted
- 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
- 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).
- binding screw — a screw used to secure one thing to another
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- bladder senna — a Eurasian leguminous plant, Colutea arborescens, with yellow and red flowers and membranous inflated pods
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- 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.
- blessed event — the birth of a child; also, a newborn child
- blind freddie — an imaginary person representing the highest degree of incompetence (esp in the phrase Blind Freddie could see that!)
- blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
- blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- 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.
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
- body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- body-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points at the centers of the unit cells.