13-letter words containing et
- bishop violet — a reddish purple.
- bittersweetly — in a bittersweet manner
- blanket chest — a chest, with or without drawers, having a rectangular space under a lifting lid or top, used for storing blankets, bedding, or clothing.
- blanket sheet — a newspaper of larger than average size, common in the mid 19th century.
- blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
- block letters — Block letters are the same as block capitals.
- blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- blow a gasket — to burst out in anger
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
- bomber jacket — A bomber jacket is a short jacket which is gathered into a band at the waist or hips.
- bonnet monkey — an Indian macaque, Macaca radiata, with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
- bottomset bed — fine sediment deposited at the front of a growing delta
- bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
- box stretcher — a heavy rectangular stretcher connecting successive legs of a table, chair, etc.
- bracket clock — a small clock designed to be placed on a bracket or shelf.
- bracket creep — an advance into a higher income tax bracket resulting from an increase in nominal income: the higher taxes, when combined with the effects of inflation, may produce a decline in real income
- brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
- breakfast set — a set of plates, bowls, eggcups, etc, specially designed to be used at breakfast
- breast pocket — The breast pocket of a man's coat or jacket is a pocket, usually on the inside, next to his chest.
- 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
- broad hatchet — a hatchet with a broad cutting edge.
- bucket ladder — a series of buckets that move in a continuous chain, used to dredge riverbeds, etc, or to excavate land
- budget period — the time which a budget covers
- budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- buffet supper — supper at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- bulbourethral — of or relating to the rounded mass of tissue surrounding the urethra at the root of the penis.
- bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- bullet-headed — with a head shaped like a bullet
- butterfly net — a lightweight, fine net on the end of a pole used for catching butterflies
- butyl acetate — a colourless liquid with a fruity odour, existing in four isomeric forms. Three of the isomers are important solvents for cellulose lacquers. Formula: CH3COOC4H9
- cabinet maker — A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cabinet-maker — a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.
- cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
- cabinetmaking — the manufacture of fine furniture and other woodwork.
- caltanissetta — a city in central Sicily: sulphur mines. Pop: 61 438 (2001)
- camel cricket — cave cricket.
- capital asset — fixed asset.
- carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
- carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
- carpet beetle — any of various beetles of the genus Anthrenus, the larvae of which feed on carpets, furnishing fabrics, etc: family Dermestidae
- carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
- carpet-weaver — a person who weaves carpets
- carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
- carpetbaggery — the practice of being a carpetbagger
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- carpetmuncher — Alternative form of carpet muncher.
- cassette deck — a machine that is used for listening to cassettes and sometimes also for recording them
- cassette tape — a recording made on magnetic tape inside a plastic container, to be inserted into a tape deck
- cassette-tape — Also called cassette tape. a compact case containing a length of magnetic tape that runs between two small reels: used for recording or playback of audio or video in a tape recorder, cassette deck, video camera, or VCR, and for storage of data by some small computer systems. See also audiocassette, videocassette.