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

  • barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
  • 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
  • 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.
  • barytocalcite — a mineral, double carbonate of calcium and barium, CaCO 3 ⋅BaCO 3 , usually found in veins of lead minerals.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • basso rilievo — bas-relief
  • basso-relievo — bas-relief
  • baton twirler — someone who twirls a baton, esp a drum major or majorette
  • battle it out — If one group or person battles it out with another, they take part in a fight or contest against each other until one of them wins or a definite result is reached. You can also say that two groups or two people battle it out.
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • 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.
  • bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
  • bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
  • bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
  • bazillionaire — (humorous) An incredibly rich person.
  • be wild about — If you are wild about someone or something, you like them very much.
  • beacon school — a notably successful school whose methods and practices are brought to the attention of the education service as a whole in order that they may be adopted by other schools
  • beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beauty parlor — A beauty parlor is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example, to have their hair, nails, or makeup done.
  • behaviourally — from a behavioural point of view
  • belgian congo — former Belgian colony (1908-60) in central Africa: now the country of Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • bellefontaine — a city in W Ohio.
  • benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
  • benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
  • benzalacetone — benzylidene acetone.
  • benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
  • beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
  • beta-blocking — acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
  • beta-naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
  • bibliographer — an expert in bibliography
  • bibliographic — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
  • bibliolatrous — characterized by bibliolatry
  • bibliological — relating to bibliology
  • bibliophagist — a person who devours books
  • bibliothecary — a librarian
  • bibliotherapy — the use of reading as therapy
  • biconditional — (of a proposition) asserting that the existence or occurrence of one thing or event depends on, and is dependent on, the existence or occurrence of another, as “A if and only if B.”.
  • bicontinental — of, on, or involving two continents: a bicontinental survey.
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • bielsko-biala — a city in S Poland.
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