13-letter words that end in d
- armour-plated — An armour-plated vehicle or building has a hard metal covering in order to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- arseniuretted — combined with arsenic so as to form an arsenide.
- arsenous acid — a toxic white powder, As2O3, used to make other arsenic compounds, insecticides, and preservatives; white arsenic
- ascorbic acid — Ascorbic acid is another name for vitamin C.
- aspartic acid — nonessential amino acid that is a component of proteins and acts as a neurotransmitter
- at first hand — If you learn or experience something at first hand, you experience it yourself or learn it directly rather than being told about it by other people.
- aten asteroid — one of a small group of asteroids whose orbits cross that of the earth and whose semimajor axes are smaller than that of the earth.
- attested herd — a herd of cattle, etc that has been certified as being free from a disease, esp from tuberculosis
- attitudinized — Simple past tense and past participle of attitudinize.
- authenticated — Prove or show (something, esp. a claim or an artistic work) to be true or genuine.
- autopolyploid — (of cells, organisms, etc) having more than two sets of haploid chromosomes inherited from a single species
- average speed — a scalar measure of the rate of movement of a body expressed as the distance travelled divided by the time taken
- back-end load — the final charges of commission and expenses made by an investment trust, insurance policy, etc, when the investor is paid out
- baedeker raid — one of the German air raids in 1942 on places of cultural and historical importance in England
- baffin island — the largest island of the Canadian Arctic, between Greenland and Hudson Bay. Area: 476 560 sq km (184 000 sq miles)
- balanced fund — a mutual fund made up of both stocks and bonds
- baltic shield — the wide area of ancient rock in Scandinavia
- barrel-shaped — having the shape of a barrel
- bay for blood — If you say that people are baying for blood, you mean that they are demanding that someone should be hurt or punished.
- beaded lizard — a large, stout-bodied, venomous lizard, Heloderma horridum, inhabiting western Mexico, having black, beadlike scales with yellow to pinkish spots and splotches.
- bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
- beat the band — a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
- bed and board — sleeping accommodation and meals
- beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
- beetle-browed — having bushy or overhanging eyebrows
- beetle-headed — a stupid person; blockhead.
- beetlebrained — stupid
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- 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.
- best of breed — The best of breed is the animal that wins first prize in its section at a dog show.
- billy the kid — nickname of William H. Bonney. 1859–81, US outlaw
- birthday card — a greeting card sent on someone's birthday
- biscuit bread — biscuits or a biscuit: I like biscuit bread more than corn bread for supper.
- biscuit-fired — (of a ceramic object) fired to harden the body.
- bishop's weed — goutweed.
- bishop's-weed — goutweed.
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- black diamond — coal (sense 1)
- black mustard — a Eurasian plant, Brassica (or Sinapsis) nigra, with clusters of yellow flowers and pungent seeds from which the condiment mustard is made: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- black-a-vised — having a dark complexion.
- black-hearted — evil, malicious, or wicked
- blood diamond — a diamond sold to help finance a military campaign
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- bloody-minded — If you say that someone is being bloody-minded, you are showing that you disapprove of their behaviour because you think they are being deliberately difficult instead of being helpful.
- boarding card — A boarding card is a card which a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
- body-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points at the centers of the unit cells.
- booby-trapped — (of a building, vehicle, etc) planted with a booby trap
- boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
- bottomset bed — fine sediment deposited at the front of a growing delta
- boudoir grand — a domestic grand piano between 5 and 6 feet in length