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13-letter words containing a, b, l

  • balloon frame — a wooden building frame composed of machine-sawed scantlings fastened with nails, having studs rising the full height of the frame with the joists nailed to the studs and supported by sills or by ribbons let into the studs.
  • balloon shade — a window shade that when raised is gathered into a series of puffy festoons created by inverted pleats in the fabric.
  • balloon-berry — strawberry-raspberry.
  • balmer series — a series of lines in the hydrogen spectrum, discovered by Johann Jakob Balmer (1825–98) in 1885
  • balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
  • balsam capivi — copaiba.
  • balsam family — the plant family Balsaminaceae, typified by succulent stems, alternate, opposite, or whorled simple leaves, and irregular solitary or clustered flowers, including the balsam and jewelweed.
  • balsam poplar — a poplar tree, Populus balsamifera, of NE North America, having resinous buds and broad heart-shaped leaves
  • balsam spruce — either of two North American coniferous trees of the genus Picea, P. pungens (the blue spruce) or P. engelmanni
  • balsamiferous — yielding or producing balsam
  • baltic shield — the wide area of ancient rock in Scandinavia
  • baltic states — the republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which became constituent republics of the former Soviet Union in 1940, regaining their independence in 1991
  • baluster stem — a stem of a drinking glass or the like having a gradual swelling near the top or bottom.
  • bamboozlement — The act or process of bamboozling or being bamboozled.
  • banana family — the plant family Musaceae, characterized by large treelike herbaceous plants of tropical regions, having a trunk formed by spiraling leaf sheaths, and bearing large leaves, flower clusters above leathery red-to-purple bracts, and fleshy fruit in clusters, including the banana and plantain.
  • banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
  • banker's bill — a banknote
  • bar billiards — a table game in pubs, etc, in which short cues are used to pocket balls into holes scoring various points and guarded by wooden pegs that incur penalties if they are knocked over
  • bar-and-grill — a place where food and alcoholic drinks are served to customers; a combined barroom and grillroom.
  • barbados aloe — a tropical aloe, Aloe barbadensis (or A. vera), of the lily family, having clusters of yellow flowers: its juice is used medicinally.
  • barber's pole — a sign outside a barber's shop consisting of a pole painted with red and white spiral stripes
  • barcoo salute — a movement of the hand to brush flies away from the face
  • baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
  • barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
  • barley stripe — a disease of barley, characterized by blighted heads and chlorotic, brown, or frayed stripes on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Helminthosporium gramineum.
  • barnacle code — (programming, humour)   Any piece of code (usually a static method) that has been appended to a class where it doesn't logically belong, due to a lack of anywhere else to put it.
  • barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
  • baroclinicity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
  • baronial hall — a large building or room owned by a baron
  • barred spiral — a spiral galaxy in which the arms originate at the ends of a bar-shaped nucleus
  • barrel cactus — any of several large, cylindrical, ribbed, spiny cacti of the genera Echinocactus and Ferocactus.
  • barrel engine — an engine having cylinders arranged around and parallel to a shaft, which they rotate by means of the contact of their piston rods with a swash plate or cam on the shaft.
  • barrel-shaped — having the shape of a barrel
  • bartholinitis — Inflammation of Bartholin's cyst.
  • bartholomew i — (Dimitrios Archontonis) born 1940, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1991.
  • bartlett pear — a large, juicy variety of pear
  • barytocalcite — a mineral, double carbonate of calcium and barium, CaCO 3 ⋅BaCO 3 , usually found in veins of lead minerals.
  • basal ganglia — the thalamus together with other closely related masses of grey matter, situated near the base of the brain
  • base hospital — a hospital serving a large rural area
  • base on balls — walk
  • basel accords — the three sets of rules, Basel I, Basel II, and Basel III, for regulating the banking industry, drawn up by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
  • baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
  • basement flat — a flat below the ground floor of a building
  • basic english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
  • basic plumage — the plumage assumed by an adult bird at its complete, usually annual, molt.
  • basket clause — an all-inclusive or comprehensive clause in a contract
  • basket flower — a composite plant, Centaurea americana, of central U.S. to Mexico, having raylike heads of tubular rose-colored flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of bracts making the flower head appear as if it is set in a basket.
  • bass clarinet — a clarinet with the lowest range, in the octave below the B-flat clarinet
  • basso rilievo — bas-relief
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