13-letter words containing d, o, b, s
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- disembodiment — to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
- disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
- disembowelled — (chiefly, British) Simple past tense and past participle of disembowel.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disinhibition — Psychology. a temporary loss of inhibition caused by an outside stimulus.
- disinhibitory — (esp of a drug) causing temporary loss of inhibition
- disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- disobligement — disobligation
- disobligingly — So as to disoblige.
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- disponibility — Availability.
- disposability — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
- dissolubility — The capability to be dissolved or disintegrated.
- distributions — Plural form of distribution.
- division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
- domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
- doomsday book — Domesday Book.
- double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- double vision — diplopia.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- doubtlessness — The property of being doubtless.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
- endosymbiosis — Symbiosis in which one of the symbiotic organisms lives inside the other.
- endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- 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.
- forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
- 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).
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- goldfish bowl — round glass container for goldfish
- horse breeder — a person who breeds horses
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- househusbands — Plural form of househusband.
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- inbounds line — one of two broken lines, parallel to the sidelines and running the length of the field, to which the ball is brought when it goes beyond the sidelines.