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13-letter words containing e, b, i

  • dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
  • disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
  • disobligement — disobligation
  • 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.
  • disubstituted — containing two substituents.
  • diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
  • divertibility — the capability of being diverted
  • diving beetle — any of numerous predaceous water beetles of the family Dytiscidae, having the body adapted for swimming.
  • division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
  • 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 nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • double vision — diplopia.
  • double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
  • double window — a window with two panes of glass
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
  • 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-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
  • double-nickel — the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour as established in 1974 on U.S. highways.
  • double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
  • double-tailed — (of a lion) represented with two tails joined together next to the body.
  • 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 berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
  • east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
  • eating habits — the way a person or group eats, considered in terms of what types of food are eaten, in what quantities, and when
  • ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
  • eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
  • ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
  • 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 gibbonEdward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • eff and blind — to use obscene language
  • eggs benedict — dish of poached eggs, ham and cream
  • electric blue — Something that is electric blue is very bright blue in colour.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
  • embellishment — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
  • embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
  • embrittlement — The characteristic or process of being embrittled.
  • embryogenetic — embryogenic
  • embryoid body — an aggregate of cells that have developed from stem cells
  • embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
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