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

  • 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.”.
  • 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
  • birthday girl — the girl or woman whose birthday is being celebrated
  • bit twiddling — 1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see tune) in which incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable improvement, often with the result that the code becomes incomprehensible. 2. Aimless small modification to a program, especially for some pointless goal. 3. bit bashing, especially used for the act of frobbing the device control register of a peripheral in an attempt to get it back to a known state.
  • 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.
  • blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
  • blood blister — a blister filled with 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)
  • bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
  • 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
  • bristol board — a heavy smooth cardboard of fine quality, used for printing and drawing
  • building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
  • 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.
  • bustard quail — button quail.
  • bustard-quail — any of several birds of the family Turnicidae, of warmer parts of the Old World, resembling but not related to the true quail. Also called bustard quail, hemipode.
  • cactus dahlia — a double-flowered variety of dahlia
  • call it a day — If you call it a day, you decide to stop what you are doing because you are tired of it or because it is not successful.
  • 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
  • capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
  • card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
  • cardinalitial — relating to a cardinal or cardinalship
  • cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
  • cardiologists — Plural form of cardiologist.
  • 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
  • child custody — custody (def 4).
  • child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
  • child-custody — custody (def 4).
  • cladistically — from a cladistic point of view
  • 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
  • clavichordist — Someone who plays the clavichord.
  • 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.
  • cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
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