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13-letter words containing o, d, e

  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • biodegradable — Something that is biodegradable breaks down or decays naturally without any special scientific treatment, and can therefore be thrown away without causing pollution.
  • bird of peace — a dove.
  • bishop's weed — goutweed.
  • bishop's-weed — goutweed.
  • 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.
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
  • 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 glucose — Blood glucose is glucose (= a type of sugar) in the bloodstream.
  • blood profile — a diagnostic test that determines the exact numbers of each type of blood cell in a fixed quantity of blood. Abbreviation: CBC.
  • blood sausage — a kind of black sausage made from minced pork fat, pig's blood, and other ingredients
  • blood vessels — any of the vessels, as arteries, veins, or capillaries, through which the blood circulates.
  • blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
  • blood-profile — a diagnostic test that determines the exact numbers of each type of blood cell in a fixed quantity of blood. Abbreviation: CBC.
  • blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
  • bloody caesar — a drink consisting of vodka, juice made from clams and tomatoes, and usually Worcester sauce and hot pepper sauce
  • bloody-minded — If you say that someone is being bloody-minded, you are showing that you disapprove of their behaviour because you think they are being deliberately difficult instead of being helpful.
  • bloomfieldian — Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.
  • blue-eyed boy — Someone's blue-eyed boy is a young man who they like better than anyone else and who therefore receives better treatment than other people.
  • board measure — a system of units for measuring wood based on the board foot. 1980 board feet equal one standard
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • bobby dazzler — a person or thing that is outstanding or excellent.
  • bobby-dazzler — anything outstanding, striking, or showy, esp an attractive girl
  • bodice ripper — You can refer to a film or novel which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes as a bodice ripper, especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
  • bodice-ripper — a modern Gothic novel or historical romance, usually in paperback format, featuring at least one passionate love scene, characteristically one in which the heroine vainly resists submitting to the villain or hero.
  • body brussels — a carpet made with three-ply or four-ply worsted yarn drawn up in uncut loops to form a pattern over the entire surface (body Brussels) or made of worsted or woolen yarns on which a pattern is printed (tapestry Brussels)
  • body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
  • body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • body-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points at the centers of the unit cells.
  • boiled dinner — a meal of meat and vegetables, as of corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes, prepared by boiling.
  • bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • boite de nuit — boîte.
  • bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
  • booby-trapped — (of a building, vehicle, etc) planted with a booby trap
  • boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
  • border collie — a medium-sized breed of collie with a silky usually black-and-white coat: used mainly as sheepdogs
  • border patrol — a government agency in charge of preventing terrorists, weapons, and illegal immigrants entering the country
  • border police — the force in charge of policing a border
  • border states — slave states bordering on the free states before the Civil War: Mo., Ky., Va., Md., & Del.
  • borna disease — viral disease found in mammals, esp horses
  • boroglyceride — any compound containing boric acid and glycerol, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • boron carbide — a black extremely hard inert substance having a high capture cross section for thermal neutrons. It is used as an abrasive, refractory, and in control rods in nuclear reactors. Formula: B4C
  • boron hydride — borane.
  • 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
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