13-letter words containing e, d, t
- 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
- be wild about — If you are wild about someone or something, you like them very much.
- beat the band — a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
- 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.
- beauty editor — the person in charge of a section of newspaper or magazine devoted to cosmetics, etc
- 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.
- bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
- bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
- 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 drink — a drink before bed, often made with milk
- bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
- beetle-browed — having bushy or overhanging eyebrows
- beetle-headed — a stupid person; blockhead.
- beetlebrained — stupid
- beg to differ — politely disagree
- bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
- bend the knee — to kneel or submit
- benedict viii — died 1024, pope 1012–24.
- benedict xiii — (Pietro Francesco Orsini) 1649–1730, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1724–30.
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- 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
- bidenticulate — having two small teeth or toothlike processes.
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
- billy the kid — nickname of William H. Bonney. 1859–81, US outlaw
- birthday cake — a special cake eaten at a birthday party
- 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
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- 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.
- black-hearted — evil, malicious, or wicked
- 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
- blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
- blood blister — a blister filled with blood
- blood brother — A man's blood brother is a man he has sworn to treat as a brother, often in a ceremony which involves mixing a small amount of their blood.
- blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- blue verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection