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13-letter words containing t, o, b, e

  • core subjects — three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
  • corroborative — Corroborative evidence or information supports an idea, account, or argument.
  • cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
  • counter table — a medieval English table having a top divided into appropriately marked spaces for various denominations of money.
  • counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
  • counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
  • counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
  • counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
  • country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
  • covalent bond — a type of chemical bond involving the sharing of electrons between atoms in a molecule, esp the sharing of a pair of electrons by two adjacent atoms
  • coventry bell — a perennial garden plant, Campanula trachelium, of Eurasia, having coarsely toothed leaves and bluish-purple flowers.
  • cremorne bolt — (on a French window or the like) a pair of rods, moved by a knob mechanism, sliding into sockets in the head and sill of the opening to provide a secure fastening.
  • creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
  • cross the bar — to die
  • crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
  • cucumber root — Indian cucumber root.
  • currant borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Ramosia tipuliformis, that bores into the stems of currants.
  • customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
  • cyanobacteria — a group of photosynthetic bacteria (phylum Cyanobacteria) containing a blue photosynthetic pigment
  • date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • daytona beach — a city in NE Florida, on the Atlantic: a resort with a beach of hard white sand, used since 1903 for motor speed trials. Pop: 64 581 (2003 est)
  • deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
  • debit account — a bank account which allows you to buy goods or services with money that you have put into the account
  • debt covenant — A debt covenant is a number of restrictions that a borrower agrees to that are set by the lending institution.
  • debt of honor — a gambling debt: not legally enforceable
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
  • decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
  • decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
  • deception bed — any of various kinds of concealed or disguised beds designed in the 18th century.
  • decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
  • defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
  • defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
  • deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
  • deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • deployability — Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
  • desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
  • desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
  • deutocerebrum — (zoology) The median lobes of the brain of an insect.
  • diabetologist — a person who studies diabetes
  • direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
  • direct object — a word or group of words representing the person or thing upon which the action of a verb is performed or toward which it is directed: in English, generally coming after the verb, without a preposition. In He saw it the pronoun it is the direct object of saw.
  • disembodiment — to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
  • disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
  • disobligement — disobligation
  • double batten — two wooden battens screwed together for holding the edge of a drop between them.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
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