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13-letter words containing a, b, o, i

  • antibillboard — indicating an opposition to the erection of billboards
  • antimetabolic — inhibiting metabolism
  • antimicrobial — capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microbes
  • antiobscenity — opposed to or working to combat obscenity
  • antiscorbutic — preventing or curing scurvy
  • apportionable — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
  • arabian horse — one of a breed of horses, raised originally in Arabia and adjacent countries, noted for intelligence, grace, and speed.
  • arabicization — the gradual change of a culture into one that incorporates Arab culture and/or speaks Arabic
  • arachnephobia — Misspelling of arachnophobia.
  • arachniphobia — Alternative form of arachnophobia.
  • arachnophobia — an abnormal fear of spiders
  • arachnophobic — an abnormal or pathological fear of spiders.
  • arbitrational — relating to, involving, or resulting from arbitration
  • arboriculture — the cultivation of trees or shrubs, esp for the production of timber
  • archbishopric — the rank, office, or jurisdiction of an archbishop
  • arithmophobia — the fear of numbers
  • ascorbic acid — Ascorbic acid is another name for vitamin C.
  • associability — the condition of or the capacity to be associable or linked or related in thinking
  • asteroid belt — the concentrations of asteroids that move around the sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
  • atomic number — the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of an element
  • atrabilarious — Characterized by melancholy or gloom.
  • attributional — of or relating to the act of attributing
  • auction block — Also called block. a platform from which an auctioneer sells: the old courthouse where slaves were sold from the auction block.
  • austin dobson — (Henry) Austin, 1840–1921, English poet, biographer, and essayist.
  • autobiography — Your autobiography is an account of your life, which you write yourself.
  • autostability — the property of being stable either as a result of inherent characteristics or of built-in devices
  • baby primrose — a tender primrose, Primula forbesii, native to China and Burma, having white, hairy leaves and rose- or lilac-colored flowers with a yellow center.
  • bachelor girl — a young unmarried woman, esp one who is self-supporting
  • bacillophobia — The fear of microbes. Also known as germaphobia.
  • back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
  • back mutation — the reversion of a mutant to the original phenotype
  • backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
  • backformation — Alternative spelling of back-formation.
  • backgrounding — Present participle of background.
  • backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
  • bacteriocidal — Alternative spelling of bactericidal.
  • bacteriogenic — Caused by bacteria.
  • bacteriologic — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
  • bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
  • bacteriolysis — the destruction or disintegration of bacteria
  • bacteriolytic — disintegration or dissolution of bacteria.
  • bacteriophage — a virus that is parasitic in a bacterium and multiplies within its host, which is destroyed when the new viruses are released
  • bacteriophagy — the action of a bacteriophage
  • bacterioscopy — the examination of bacteria with a microscope.
  • bacteriostats — Plural form of bacteriostat.
  • bacteriotoxin — any toxin that kills bacteria
  • bacterization — subjection to bacterial action
  • badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
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