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13-letter words containing r, a, t, l, e, b

  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
  • solar battery — an array of solar cells, used as a source of electrical power.
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
  • spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
  • stone bramble — a herbaceous Eurasian rosaceous plant, Rubus saxatilis, of stony places, having white flowers and berry-like scarlet fruits (drupelets)
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • subequatorial — of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.
  • subliterature — writing below the standards of literature as an art form.
  • subperiosteal — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subternatural — falling below what is accepted as natural; less than natural
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
  • table manners — etiquette when eating
  • table-rapping — the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living
  • table-turning — the movement of a table attributed by spiritualists to the power of spirits working through a group of persons placing their hands or fingers on the table top
  • temporal bone — either of a pair of thick compound bones forming the part of the skull that encases the inner ear.
  • temporal lobe — the lateral lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the occipital lobe.
  • terbium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the cerium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
  • tetrasyllable — a word or line of verse of four syllables.
  • the noble art — boxing
  • thermal baths — warm water spa
  • thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
  • thread blight — a fungal disease of woody plants, characterized by thick, threadlike strands of mycelium on the undersides of the leaves and branches.
  • throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
  • tidal barrage — a barrier that traps water at high tide, creating a tidal basin
  • tracer bullet — a bullet containing a tracer.
  • trade balance — balance of trade.
  • transferrable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • transformable — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transmissible — capable of being transmitted.
  • transmittable — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
  • traveling bag — a small bag, as a valise or suitcase, usually made of leather, having an oblong shape, and used chiefly to hold clothes.
  • treasury bill — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
  • treble chance — a method of betting in football pools in which the chances of winning are related to the number of draws and the number of home and away wins forecast by the competitor
  • trestle table — a table having transverse slabs or rigid frames for supports, and usually strengthened by a long stretcher.
  • trial balance — a statement of all the open debit and credit items, made preliminary to balancing a double-entry ledger.
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • trumpet blast — the sound of a single note made by a trumpet
  • tuberculation — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
  • tubular bells — Often, tubular bells. one of a set of tuned metal tubes of different lengths used as a musical instrument, suspended vertically from a frame and struck with a mallet to produce sounds or melodies.
  • tubular skate — a type of ice skate consisting of a steel blade set into an aluminum tube and connected to the shoe by tubular supports, used for both hockey and racing skates.
  • tubular steel — steel in the shape of a cylinder or long narrow rectangle; tube-shaped steel
  • turbine blade — any of a number of bladelike vanes assembled around the periphery of a turbine rotor to guide the steam or gas flow
  • tuva republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: mountainous. Capital: Kizyl. Pop: 305 500 (2002). Area: 170 500 sq km (65 800 sq miles)
  • ultra-liberal — extremely liberal, especially in politics.
  • ultrareliable — extremely reliable
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • umbrella step — (in the game of giant steps) a step executed by extending one foot forward and whirling on the heel.
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