13-letter words containing o, l, d
- assembly code — assembly language
- asteroid belt — the concentrations of asteroids that move around the sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- at loose ends — in an unsettled, disorganized, or confused condition
- at the double — at twice normal marching speed
- audio-lingual — pertaining to listening comprehension and speaking, especially in learning a foreign language.
- autopolyploid — (of cells, organisms, etc) having more than two sets of haploid chromosomes inherited from a single species
- baal merodach — Marduk.
- back-end load — the final charges of commission and expenses made by an investment trust, insurance policy, etc, when the investor is paid out
- backdoor play — an offensive tactic whereby a player breaks away from a defender to receive a pass near the baseline in order to make a quick layup.
- backward roll — a gymnastic roll that is performed with the feet going first and the rest of the body and the head following
- bacteriocidal — Alternative spelling of bactericidal.
- bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
- balloon shade — a window shade that when raised is gathered into a series of puffy festoons created by inverted pleats in the fabric.
- banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
- barbados aloe — a tropical aloe, Aloe barbadensis (or A. vera), of the lily family, having clusters of yellow flowers: its juice is used medicinally.
- barnacle code — (programming, humour) Any piece of code (usually a static method) that has been appended to a class where it doesn't logically belong, due to a lack of anywhere else to put it.
- barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
- basel accords — the three sets of rules, Basel I, Basel II, and Basel III, for regulating the banking industry, drawn up by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- bay for blood — If you say that people are baying for blood, you mean that they are demanding that someone should be hurt or punished.
- be wild about — If you are wild about someone or something, you like them very much.
- beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- beetle-browed — having bushy or overhanging eyebrows
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
- 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.
- bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
- 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.
- beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
- 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.”.
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- bill of goods — a list of items for sale, consignment, shipment, etc
- billiard room — a room in a house, club, etc., where billiards is played.
- biodegradable — Something that is biodegradable breaks down or decays naturally without any special scientific treatment, and can therefore be thrown away without causing pollution.
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- black diamond — coal (sense 1)
- bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
- block diagram — a diagram showing the interconnections between the parts of an industrial process
- blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
- blood alcohol — alcohol that is circulating in the blood
- 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 diamond — a diamond sold to help finance a military campaign
- blood glucose — Blood glucose is glucose (= a type of sugar) in the bloodstream.
- blood product — a pharmaceutical product made from blood, such as Factor VIII
- 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 pudding — Blood pudding is another word for black pudding.
- blood sausage — a kind of black sausage made from minced pork fat, pig's blood, and other ingredients