13-letter words containing d, r, i, b, e
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
- disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
- disregardable — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distributives — Plural form of distributive.
- diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- divertibility — the capability of being diverted
- double boiler — a utensil consisting of two pots, one of which fits partway into the other: water is boiled in the lower pot to cook or warm food or melt a substance in the upper.
- double bridle — a bridle with four reins coming from a bit with two rings on each side
- double-dipper — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- double-figure — double-digit.
- double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
- dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
- 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.
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- 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).
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- embryoid body — an aggregate of cells that have developed from stem cells
- endobronchial — (anatomy) Pertaining to the lining of the bronchi.
- enrolled bill — draft legislation approved in identical form by both houses and sent to the President for approval
- 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).
- flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- 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.
- frederiksberg — a city in E Denmark: a part of Copenhagen.
- frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
- gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
- 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).
- gingerbreaded — flavoured with gingerbread
- good behavior — satisfactory, proper, or polite conduct.
- good-neighbor — characterized by friendly political relations and mutual aid between countries.
- 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.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.