13-letter words containing d, t, m
- antimodernist — opposed to modernism
- antispasmodic — preventing or arresting spasms, esp in smooth muscle
- archimandrite — the head of a monastery or a group of monasteries
- armistice day — the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I, on Nov 11, 1918, now kept on Remembrance Sunday
- armour-plated — An armour-plated vehicle or building has a hard metal covering in order to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- armstand dive — a dive starting from a handstand at the end of a springboard or a platform with the diver's back to the water.
- astrodynamics — the study of the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space
- attested form — a linguistic form that can be shown to be in use or in written records
- autodidactism — Alternative form of autodidacticism.
- autoradiogram — autoradiograph
- autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
- avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
- badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
- band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
- 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
- bastard amber — a color of gelatin commonly used in stage lighting, similar to light amber but having a pinkish cast.
- beat the drum — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- bedaux system — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
- bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
- bedtime drink — a drink before bed, often made with milk
- bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
- bessel method — a method of ascertaining position by the use of a map showing prominent features of the terrain and enabling one to sight through them to obtain a fix.
- bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
- bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- black mustard — a Eurasian plant, Brassica (or Sinapsis) nigra, with clusters of yellow flowers and pungent seeds from which the condiment mustard is made: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
- borrowed time — an uncertain, usually limited period of time extending beyond or postponing the occurrence of something inevitable.
- bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
- bottom feeder — a fish that feeds on material at the bottom of a river, lake, sea, etc
- bottomset bed — fine sediment deposited at the front of a growing delta
- bring to mind — recall
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
- casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
- cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- christmas day — Christmas Day is the 25th of December, when Christmas is celebrated.
- christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
- circumduction — the action of turning anything on its axis
- circumductory — relating to circumduction
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- closed system — a region that is isolated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits no transfer of matter or energy across it.
- clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.