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13-letter words containing t, e, l, d

  • bedside table — a small table beside a bed
  • beetle-browed — having bushy or overhanging eyebrows
  • beetle-headed — a stupid person; blockhead.
  • beetlebrained — stupid
  • benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
  • 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
  • bidenticulate — having two small teeth or toothlike processes.
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
  • billy the kid — nickname of William H. Bonney. 1859–81, US outlaw
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • black studies — a program of studies in black history and culture offered by a school or college, often including Afro-American history and black literature.
  • black-hearted — evil, malicious, or wicked
  • blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
  • blessed event — the birth of a child; also, a newborn child
  • blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
  • 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-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
  • blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
  • blue verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
  • border patrol — a government agency in charge of preventing terrorists, weapons, and illegal immigrants entering the country
  • bottle blonde — a woman with dyed blonde hair
  • bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
  • bottled water — water sold in bottles
  • bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
  • brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
  • bucket ladder — a series of buckets that move in a continuous chain, used to dredge riverbeds, etc, or to excavate land
  • building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
  • bullet-headed — with a head shaped like a bullet
  • bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
  • butyraldehyde — a colourless flammable pungent liquid used in the manufacture of resins. Formula: CH3(CH2)2CHO
  • call to order — to request to be quiet, as to start (a meeting)
  • called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
  • canaliculated — Canaliculate.
  • candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
  • cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
  • centerfielder — (baseball) A player in the centerfield position.
  • central india — a former political agency in central India uniting various native states and subordinate agencies: now incorporated into Madhya Pradesh.
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
  • child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
  • child cruelty — cruelty directed against children
  • clandestinely — characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious: Their clandestine meetings went undiscovered for two years.
  • clandestinity — secrecy; the quality of being clandestine
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • close at hand — lying in the near future or vicinity; nearby or imminent.
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