13-letter words containing d, i, r, t, b
- bristol board — a heavy smooth cardboard of fine quality, used for printing and drawing
- british india — the 17 provinces of India formerly governed by the British under the British sovereign: ceased to exist in 1947 when the independent states of India and Pakistan were created
- bud variation — any variation in a bud due to changes in either its genetic composition or environment or both such that the resulting flower, fruit, or shoot differs from others of the same plant or species.
- budget period — the time which a budget covers
- burt standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- bustard quail — button quail.
- bustard-quail — any of several birds of the family Turnicidae, of warmer parts of the Old World, resembling but not related to the true quail. Also called bustard quail, hemipode.
- carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
- carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
- cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
- chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
- circuit board — A circuit board is the same as a printed circuit board.
- comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
- counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
- credibilities — the quality of being believable or worthy of trust: After all those lies, his credibility was at a low ebb.
- credit bureau — an agency that is a clearinghouse for information on the credit rating of individuals or firms
- creditability — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
- cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
- decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
- decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
- defibrillated — Simple past tense and past participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- deterrability — the quality of being deterrable
- detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
- dietary fiber — fiber (def 9).
- dietary fibre — fibrous substances in fruits and vegetables, such as the structural polymers of cell walls, consumption of which aids digestion and is believed to help prevent certain diseases
- dinoturbation — the effect or process of trampling and major disturbance to sedimentary rock layers caused by the movement of dinosaurs
- direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
- direct object — a word or group of words representing the person or thing upon which the action of a verb is performed or toward which it is directed: in English, generally coming after the verb, without a preposition. In He saw it the pronoun it is the direct object of saw.
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
- disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
- discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
- discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.