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13-letter words containing e, b, i, t

  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
  • strikebreaker — a person who takes part in breaking up a strike of workers, either by working or by furnishing workers.
  • stringer bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • sub-questions — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subcollection — the act of collecting.
  • subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • subderivative — a word derived from a derivative.
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
  • subequatorial — of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
  • subject index — alphabetical contents list
  • subjectifying — to make subjective.
  • sublieutenant — British. a navy officer ranking next below a lieutenant.
  • sublime porte — official name of Porte.
  • subliterature — writing below the standards of literature as an art form.
  • submillimeter — less than a millimeter in size: a submillimeter wave.
  • submillimetre — a microscopic division of a millimetre
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subperiosteal — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • subspecialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
  • subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
  • substantiated — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
  • substantively — a noun.
  • substantivize — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
  • superlobbyist — someone who lobbies on behalf of another
  • table dancing — Table dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances in a sexy way close to a customer or group of customers.
  • table licence — a licence authorizing the sale of alcoholic drinks with meals only
  • table setting — a set of cutlery, glasses, napkin, etc. for one person, as used on a table
  • table-rapping — the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living
  • table-turning — the movement of a table attributed by spiritualists to the power of spirits working through a group of persons placing their hands or fingers on the table top
  • tail assembly — the tail part of a plane
  • take the bait — If you take the bait, you react to something that someone has said or done exactly as they intended you to do. The expression rise to the bait is also used, mainly in British English.
  • terbium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the cerium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
  • terbium oxide — an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
  • testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the beautiful — the quality of beauty
  • the big apple — New York City
  • the big eight — a former group of eight US universities which have a tradition of excellence in baseball, basketball, and American football.
  • the big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
  • the big issue — a weekly magazine, founded to highlight the plight of the homeless, and sold by homeless people
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