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13-letter words containing n, d, t

  • 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
  • biconditional — (of a proposition) asserting that the existence or occurrence of one thing or event depends on, and is dependent on, the existence or occurrence of another, as “A if and only if B.”.
  • bidenticulate — having two small teeth or toothlike processes.
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
  • bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
  • bit twiddling — 1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see tune) in which incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable improvement, often with the result that the code becomes incomprehensible. 2. Aimless small modification to a program, especially for some pointless goal. 3. bit bashing, especially used for the act of frobbing the device control register of a peripheral in an attempt to get it back to a known state.
  • bits and bobs — Bits and bobs are small objects or parts of something.
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • black and tan — a mixture of stout or porter and ale
  • black-and-tan — (of a dog) of a black color with tan markings above the eyes and on the muzzle, chest, legs, feet, and breech.
  • 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-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
  • blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • body-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points at the centers of the unit cells.
  • boite de nuit — boîte.
  • boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
  • boots and all — making every effort; with no holds barred
  • boron nitride — a white inert crystalline solid existing both in a graphite-like form and in an extremely hard diamond-like form (borazon). It is used as a refractory, high-temperature lubricant and insulator, and heat shield. Formula: BN
  • bottle blonde — a woman with dyed blonde hair
  • bound up with — closely or inextricably linked with
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • brace and bit — a hand tool for boring holes, consisting of a cranked handle into which a drilling bit is inserted
  • brand loyalty — the tendency of consumers to continue buying a particular brand instead of trying a different one
  • brandy butter — butter and sugar creamed together with brandy and served with Christmas pudding, etc
  • break it down — stop it
  • 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.
  • brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
  • bring to mind — recall
  • 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
  • brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • bud variation — any variation in a bud due to changes in either its genetic composition or environment or both such that the resulting flower, fruit, or shoot differs from others of the same plant or species.
  • building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
  • 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.
  • butanoic acid — kind of acid
  • buttoned-down — conventional or conservative
  • by definition — If you say that something has a particular quality by definition, you mean that it has this quality simply because of what it is.
  • camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
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