13-letter words containing d, i
- attitudinally — in a manner expressive of personal attitudes or emotions
- attitudinized — Simple past tense and past participle of attitudinize.
- 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.
- audio-lingual — pertaining to listening comprehension and speaking, especially in learning a foreign language.
- audiocassette — a cassette containing audiotape
- audiographics — audiographic teleconferencing
- austin dobson — (Henry) Austin, 1840–1921, English poet, biographer, and essayist.
- australia day — a public holiday in Australia, commemorating the landing of the British in 1788: observed on January 26
- authenticated — Prove or show (something, esp. a claim or an artistic work) to be true or genuine.
- autodidactism — Alternative form of autodidacticism.
- autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
- autooxidation — autoxidation.
- autopolyploid — (of cells, organisms, etc) having more than two sets of haploid chromosomes inherited from a single species
- autoradiogram — autoradiograph
- autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
- autoschediaze — to do or act with little forethought or preparation
- avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
- award-winning — An award-winning person or thing has won an award, especially an important or valuable one.
- awning window — a window frame having one or more sashes hinged at the top and swinging outward.
- ayurvedically — As a practitioner of Ayurveda; in an Ayurvedic way.
- back and fill — to manoeuvre the sails by alternately filling and emptying them of wind to navigate in a narrow place
- backgrounding — Present participle of background.
- backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
- backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
- bacteriocidal — Alternative spelling of bactericidal.
- badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
- baedeker raid — one of the German air raids in 1942 on places of cultural and historical importance in England
- baffin island — the largest island of the Canadian Arctic, between Greenland and Hudson Bay. Area: 476 560 sq km (184 000 sq miles)
- bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
- bailey bridge — a temporary bridge made of prefabricated steel panels that can be rapidly assembled
- baily's beads — the brilliant points of sunlight that appear briefly around the moon, just before and after a total eclipse
- baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
- balanced diet — a diet consisting of the proper quantities and proportions of foods needed to maintain health or growth.
- balanced line — a transmission line in which the oppositely directed components are symmetrical with respect to each other and to the ground.
- ball and ring — a simplified bead-and-reel turning, used especially in English and American furniture of the 17th century.
- ball handling — the control of the ball, as in basketball or soccer, by skillful dribbling and accurate passing.
- baltic shield — the wide area of ancient rock in Scandinavia
- banana spider — a large, yellowish, tropical crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria) occasionally found in bunches of bananas shipped to the Temperate Zones
- band-aid baby — a child conceived to strengthen a faltering relationship
- banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
- bandicoot rat — any of three burrowing rats of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia, of S and SE Asia: family Muridae
- bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
- bank discount — interest on a loan deducted from the principal amount when the loan is made and based on the loan's face value
- bar billiards — a table game in pubs, etc, in which short cues are used to pocket balls into holes scoring various points and guarded by wooden pegs that incur penalties if they are knocked over
- bar-and-grill — a place where food and alcoholic drinks are served to customers; a combined barroom and grillroom.
- barred spiral — a spiral galaxy in which the arms originate at the ends of a bar-shaped nucleus
- 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