13-letter words containing o, d, e
- borrowed time — an uncertain, usually limited period of time extending beyond or postponing the occurrence of something inevitable.
- bottle blonde — a woman with dyed blonde hair
- bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
- bottled water — water sold in bottles
- bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
- bottom feeder — a fish that feeds on material at the bottom of a river, lake, sea, etc
- bottomset bed — fine sediment deposited at the front of a growing delta
- bounce around — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
- boundary peak — a peak in SW Nevada, in the White Mountains, near the California border: highest elevation in Nevada. 13,143 feet (4006 meters).
- bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
- boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
- boys' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for boys, founded in 1883, with the aim of promoting discipline and self-respect
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
- break it down — stop it
- breech-loader — a firearm that is loaded at the breech
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- breidha fjord — an inlet of Denmark Strait on the NW coast of Iceland.
- 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
- bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
- broad hatchet — a hatchet with a broad cutting edge.
- broad-brimmed — (of a hat) having a broad brim
- broadly based — Something that is broadly based involves many different kinds of things or people.
- broken-winded — suffering from heaves
- brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
- brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
- bûche de noël — a French Christmas cake made from a thin layer of spongecake that is rolled up and frosted so as to resemble a decorative Yule log
- budget period — the time which a budget covers
- bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
- bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- 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.
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- calcium oxide — a white crystalline base used in the production of calcium hydroxide and bleaching powder and in the manufacture of glass, paper, and steel. Formula: CaO
- calcium-oxide — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- call to order — to request to be quiet, as to start (a meeting)
- candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
- cannon fodder — If someone in authority regards people they are in charge of as cannon fodder, they do not care if these people are harmed or lost in the course of their work.
- cape coloured — (formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethnic origin
- cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
- cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers.
- capello index — a player rating website backed by Fabio Capello in which marks are awarded to football players in the top teams according to their performance in key skills of the game
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
- card walloper — (jargon) An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.