13-letter words containing a, b, o, t, s
- cross the bar — to die
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- diabetologist — a person who studies diabetes
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- dispatch boat — a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.
- disposability — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
- east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
- easter bonnet — an especially pretty or fancy hat designed for a woman to wear to church on Easter Sunday or, especially, in an Easter parade
- erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
- ethnobotanist — A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany.
- exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
- fantabulously — In a fantabulous manner; fantastically, wonderfully.
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- globalisation — internationalisation
- go to blazes! — go to hell!
- harbor master — an official who supervises operations in a harbor area and administers its rules.
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- horseshoe bat — any of numerous large-eared Old World insectivorous bats, mostly of the genus Rhinolophus, with a fleshy growth around the nostrils, used in echolocation: family Rhinolophidae
- hospitability — The quality of being hospitable.
- hospital bill — the bills incurred for receiving hospital treatment
- hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
- hothouse lamb — a lamb born in the fall or early winter, usually reared indoors, specially fed, and marketed when from 9 to 16 weeks of age.
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- incompatibles — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- incontestable — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
- incontestably — incapable of being contested; not open to dispute; incontrovertible: incontestable proof.
- inhabitations — Plural form of inhabitation.
- inobservation — lack of observation
- insociability — the state or quality of being insociable
- insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.