13-letter words containing d, i, t, e
- baltic shield — the wide area of ancient rock in Scandinavia
- basidiomycete — any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the spores are produced in basidia. The group includes boletes, puffballs, smuts, and rusts
- basket dinner — a group social gathering, as of church members, to which participants contribute casseroles or other dishes to share.
- bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
- bastard title — half title (def 1).
- bastard-title — Also called bastard title. the first printed page of certain books, appearing after the end papers and before the title page and containing only the title of the book.
- battered wife — See under battered woman syndrome.
- batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
- 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.
- beauty editor — the person in charge of a section of newspaper or magazine devoted to cosmetics, etc
- 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 suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
- bedside table — a small table beside a bed
- bedtime drink — a drink before bed, often made with milk
- bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
- beetlebrained — stupid
- beg to differ — politely disagree
- bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
- 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.
- 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-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
- billy the kid — nickname of William H. Bonney. 1859–81, US outlaw
- birthday cake — a special cake eaten at a birthday party
- 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.
- bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
- bite the dust — to fail completely or cease to exist
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- 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.
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- blood blister — a blister filled with blood
- blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- blue verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- boite de nuit — boîte.
- boron nitride — a white inert crystalline solid existing both in a graphite-like form and in an extremely hard diamond-like form (borazon). It is used as a refractory, high-temperature lubricant and insulator, and heat shield. Formula: BN
- borrowed time — an uncertain, usually limited period of time extending beyond or postponing the occurrence of something inevitable.
- bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
- brace and bit — a hand tool for boring holes, consisting of a cranked handle into which a drilling bit is inserted
- break it down — stop it
- bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
- brilliantined — treated with brilliantine