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13-letter words containing d, i, r, t, b

  • distributions — Plural form of distribution.
  • distributives — Plural form of distributive.
  • divertibility — the capability of being diverted
  • drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • dumb terminal — (hardware)   A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
  • east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
  • field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
  • 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.
  • hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
  • hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
  • hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
  • hybridization — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
  • hydroboration — (chemistry) the production or organoboranes by the addition of diborane to unsaturated organic compounds.
  • impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
  • inboard motor — a boat's motor that is situated within the hull
  • incredibility — so extraordinary as to seem impossible: incredible speed.
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • interbreeding — Present participle of interbreed.
  • inverted snob — a person who scorns the conventions or attitudes of his own class or social group by attempting to identify with people of a supposedly lower class
  • italian bread — a crusty, yeast-raised bread made without shortening and unsweetened, usually baked in long, thick loaves with tapered ends.
  • kirkcudbright — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • 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).
  • marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
  • matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
  • midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
  • military band — a musical band, usually made up of players of wind, percussion and some brass instruments, that play at military functions, etc
  • misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
  • miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
  • mountainboard — a type of skateboard specially designed for rough terrain and steep slopes, having four large wheels linked by a suspension system
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • nondeliberate — not deliberate or intentional
  • nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
  • obiter dictum — an incidental or passing remark, opinion, etc.
  • open-timbered — constructed so that the timbers are exposed.
  • orbital index — the ratio of the maximum breadth to the maximum height of the orbital cavity multiplied by 100.
  • particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
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