13-letter words containing t, e, n, d, r
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- bedtime drink — a drink before bed, often made with milk
- beetlebrained — stupid
- bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- body-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points at the centers of the unit cells.
- boron nitride — a white inert crystalline solid existing both in a graphite-like form and in an extremely hard diamond-like form (borazon). It is used as a refractory, high-temperature lubricant and insulator, and heat shield. Formula: BN
- boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
- brace and bit — a hand tool for boring holes, consisting of a cranked handle into which a drilling bit is inserted
- brandy butter — butter and sugar creamed together with brandy and served with Christmas pudding, etc
- break it down — stop it
- bretton woods — resort in the White Mountains, N.H.: site of a United Nations monetary conference (1944) at which the International Monetary Fund was established
- brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
- brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
- candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
- candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
- cap-and-trade — denoting a scheme which allows companies with high greenhouse gas emissions to buy an emission allowance from companies which have fewer emissions, in a bid to reduce the overall impact to the environment
- carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
- cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
- cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
- casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
- center spread — the pair of pages facing each other at the center of a magazine or newspaper, printed and made up as a single unit.
- 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.
- centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
- centre spread — the pair of two facing pages in the middle of a magazine, newspaper, etc, often illustrated
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
- cigarette end — the part of a cigarette that is held in the mouth and that remains unsmoked after it is finished
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
- coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
- colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- compartmented — Divided into compartments.
- comprehendeth — Archaic third-person singular form of comprehend.
- computer nerd — someone who is inordinately preoccupied with using computers, at the expense of ordinary social skills
- concert grand — a full-size grand piano, usually around 7 feet in length
- concertedness — the state of being concerted
- conductimetry — the science of measuring the conductivity of solutions.
- confederating — Present participle of confederate.
- confederation — A confederation is an organization or group consisting of smaller groups or states, especially one that exists for business or political purposes.