13-letter words containing o, e, d, i
- apostrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of apostrophize.
- arsenous acid — a toxic white powder, As2O3, used to make other arsenic compounds, insecticides, and preservatives; white arsenic
- arundinaceous — resembling a reed
- ascension day — the 40th day after Easter, when the Ascension of Christ into heaven is celebrated
- ascensiontide — the ten days from Ascension Day to the day before Whit Sunday
- assiduousness — constant; unremitting: assiduous reading.
- asteroid belt — the concentrations of asteroids that move around the sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- aten asteroid — one of a small group of asteroids whose orbits cross that of the earth and whose semimajor axes are smaller than that of the earth.
- audaciousness — Risky or daring behaviour.
- audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
- audiocassette — a cassette containing audiotape
- autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
- autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
- autoschediaze — to do or act with little forethought or preparation
- bacteriocidal — Alternative spelling of bactericidal.
- baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
- banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
- basidiomycete — any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the spores are produced in basidia. The group includes boletes, puffballs, smuts, and rusts
- basidiospores — Plural form of basidiospore.
- batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
- be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
- be wild about — If you are wild about someone or something, you like them very much.
- bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
- beauty editor — the person in charge of a section of newspaper or magazine devoted to cosmetics, etc
- bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
- bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
- beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
- beg to differ — politely disagree
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
- bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
- beyond belief — You use beyond belief to emphasize that something is true to a very great degree or that it happened to a very great degree.
- 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
- blood blister — a blister filled with blood
- 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-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-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.
- 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