13-letter words containing t, a, b, l, e, d
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- handleability — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
- indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
- ineducability — Inability to be educated.
- infundibulate — Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular.
- italian bread — a crusty, yeast-raised bread made without shortening and unsweetened, usually baked in long, thick loaves with tapered ends.
- larder beetle — a black beetle, Dermestes lardarius, the larvae of which feed on dried meats, hides, furs, etc.
- libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
- lonsdale belt — (in Britain) a belt conferred as a trophy on professional boxing champions, in various weight categories: if a champion wins it three times it becomes his personal property
- malted barley — barley that has been kiln-dried after it has germinated by soaking in water
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
- mixed ability — A mixed ability class or teaching system is one in which pupils of different abilities are taught together in the same class.
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- national debt — the financial obligations of a national government resulting from deficit spending.
- non-adaptable — capable of being adapted.
- non-obligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- nondeliberate — not deliberate or intentional
- nondepletable — not depletable
- nondetachable — Not capable of being detached.
- orbital index — the ratio of the maximum breadth to the maximum height of the orbital cavity multiplied by 100.
- particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
- perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
- plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
- polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
- quodlibetical — a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
- rattlebrained — foolish; flighty; scatterbrained.
- reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
- redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
- reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- rehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- remediability — the state of being able to be remedied
- rialto bridge — a bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, liking Rialto Island with San Marco Island
- riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
- sand bluestem — a grass, Andropogon hallii, native to the Great Plains, used as a cover crop for sand dunes.
- second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
- solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
- sound blaster — (hardware) The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
- spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
- subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent