13-letter words containing d, t, s
- 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.
- batan islands — a group of islands in the Philippines, north of Luzon. Capital: Basco. Pop: 16 467 (2000). Area: 197 sq km (76 sq miles)
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- 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
- 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
- bedside table — a small table beside a bed
- bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
- bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
- benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
- berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
- bespottedness — the state of being covered with spots or blemishes
- 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.
- best of breed — The best of breed is the animal that wins first prize in its section at a dog show.
- bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
- bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
- birthday bash — a birthday party
- birthday suit — If you are in your birthday suit, you are not wearing any clothes.
- 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
- bits and bobs — Bits and bobs are small objects or parts of something.
- 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)
- 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.
- blessed event — the birth of a child; also, a newborn child
- blood blister — a blister filled with blood
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- body stocking — A body stocking is a piece of clothing that covers the whole of someone's body and fits tightly. Body stockings are often worn by dancers.
- boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
- boots and all — making every effort; with no holds barred
- border states — slave states bordering on the free states before the Civil War: Mo., Ky., Va., Md., & Del.
- bottomset bed — fine sediment deposited at the front of a growing delta
- boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
- bretton woods — resort in the White Mountains, N.H.: site of a United Nations monetary conference (1944) at which the International Monetary Fund was established
- bridging shot — a shot inserted in a film to indicate the passage of time between two scenes, as of a series of newspaper headlines or calendar pages being torn off.
- bristol board — a heavy smooth cardboard of fine quality, used for printing and drawing
- british india — the 17 provinces of India formerly governed by the British under the British sovereign: ceased to exist in 1947 when the independent states of India and Pakistan were created
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
- bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
- burt standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- bustard quail — button quail.
- bustard-quail — any of several birds of the family Turnicidae, of warmer parts of the Old World, resembling but not related to the true quail. Also called bustard quail, hemipode.
- cactus dahlia — a double-flowered variety of dahlia
- called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
- candidateship — candidature