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13-letter words containing d, e, u

  • attitudinizer — One who attitudinizes, or practises poses.
  • attitudinizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attitudinize.
  • audaciousness — Risky or daring behaviour.
  • audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
  • 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
  • ayurvedically — As a practitioner of Ayurveda; in an Ayurvedic way.
  • backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
  • balanced fund — a mutual fund made up of both stocks and bonds
  • 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
  • banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • be muffled up — If you are muffled up, you are wearing a lot of heavy clothes so that very little of your body or face is visible.
  • 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
  • be wild about — If you are wild about someone or something, you like them very much.
  • beat the drum — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
  • beauty editor — the person in charge of a section of newspaper or magazine devoted to cosmetics, etc
  • bedaux system — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
  • bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
  • beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
  • benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
  • bermuda grass — a widely distributed grass, Cynodon dactylon, with wiry creeping rootstocks and several purplish spikes of flowers arising from a single point: used for lawns, pasturage, binding sand dunes, etc
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • beyond number — too numerous to be counted
  • bidenticulate — having two small teeth or toothlike processes.
  • 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.
  • bite the dust — to fail completely or cease to exist
  • 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.
  • bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
  • blood glucose — Blood glucose is glucose (= a type of sugar) in the bloodstream.
  • blood sausage — a kind of black sausage made from minced pork fat, pig's blood, and other ingredients
  • blue verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
  • blue-eyed boy — Someone's blue-eyed boy is a young man who they like better than anyone else and who therefore receives better treatment than other people.
  • board measure — a system of units for measuring wood based on the board foot. 1980 board feet equal one standard
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • body brussels — a carpet made with three-ply or four-ply worsted yarn drawn up in uncut loops to form a pattern over the entire surface (body Brussels) or made of worsted or woolen yarns on which a pattern is printed (tapestry Brussels)
  • 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.
  • boite de nuit — boîte.
  • bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
  • bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
  • bounce around — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
  • boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
  • boundary peak — a peak in SW Nevada, in the White Mountains, near the California border: highest elevation in Nevada. 13,143 feet (4006 meters).
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