13-letter words containing d, e, t, a, b
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- excludability — The ability to be excluded.
- expandability — (uncountable) The condition of being expandable.
- expendability — The state or quality of being expendable.
- extendability — Extensibility.
- extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
- featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.
- ferret badger — any of several small omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.
- field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
- fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
- flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
- flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
- flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- fort dearborn — a former U.S. fort on the site of Chicago, 1803–37.
- get a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- go to the bad — to become wicked, shiftless, etc.; degenerate
- great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- handleability — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
- in sb's stead — If you do something in someone's stead, you replace them and do it instead of them.
- indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- ineducability — Inability to be educated.
- infundibulate — Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular.
- insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- italian bread — a crusty, yeast-raised bread made without shortening and unsweetened, usually baked in long, thick loaves with tapered ends.
- larder beetle — a black beetle, Dermestes lardarius, the larvae of which feed on dried meats, hides, furs, etc.
- libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
- lonsdale belt — (in Britain) a belt conferred as a trophy on professional boxing champions, in various weight categories: if a champion wins it three times it becomes his personal property
- malted barley — barley that has been kiln-dried after it has germinated by soaking in water
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
- miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
- mixed ability — A mixed ability class or teaching system is one in which pupils of different abilities are taught together in the same class.
- mortgage bond — a bond secured by a mortgage on real estate or other property.
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- national debt — the financial obligations of a national government resulting from deficit spending.
- non-adaptable — capable of being adapted.
- non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.