13-letter words containing a, b, w
- a tangled web — If you refer to a situation as a tangled web, you are emphasizing that it is very confused.
- above the law — If you accuse someone of thinking they are above the law, you criticize them for thinking that they are so clever or important that they do not need to obey the law.
- albert edward — a mountain in SE New Guinea, in the Owen Stanley Range. Height: 3993 m (13 100 ft)
- allowable cut — the amount of a natural resource, as grain or oil, that may be harvested or taken from the earth within a specified period, as limited by law for conservation.
- allowableness — the quality of being allowable
- answerability — liable to be asked to give account; responsible: He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions.
- anti-sway bar — antiroll bar
- ass backwards — in an order or way reverse from the usual: You've sewn the sleeve on assbackwards.
- ass-backwards — of or in a way that is particularly contrary to the usual way, confusing, etc.
- assemblywoman — In the United States, an assemblywoman is a female elected member of an assembly of people who make decisions and laws.
- assemblywomen — Plural form of assemblywoman.
- back walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- backward roll — a gymnastic roll that is performed with the feet going first and the rest of the body and the head following
- backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
- bag of waters — a fluid-filled membranous sac in the pregnant uterus that encloses and cushions the fetus, normally breaking at or just before the time of birth; the amnion.
- bakewell tart — an open tart having a pastry base and a layer of jam and filled with almond-flavoured sponge cake
- baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
- balance wheel — a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece, thereby regulating its beat
- bankrupt worm — a roundworm (genus Trichostrongylus) that is an intestinal parasite of birds and mammals, especially devastating to young livestock.
- bantamweights — Plural form of bantamweight.
- barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
- bartholomew i — (Dimitrios Archontonis) born 1940, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1991.
- 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.
- bassenthwaite — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria near Keswick. Length: 6 km (4 miles)
- baton twirler — someone who twirls a baton, esp a drum major or majorette
- battered wife — See under battered woman syndrome.
- be wild about — If you are wild about someone or something, you like them very much.
- beached whale — large sea mammal stranded on shore
- bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
- bench warrant — a warrant issued by a judge or court directing that an offender be apprehended
- benjamin west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
- bewick's swan — a white Old World swan, Cygnus bewickii, having a black bill with a small yellow base
- big brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
- big gray wall — (jargon) What faces a VMS user searching for documentation. A full VMS kit comes on a pallet, the documentation taking up around 15 feet of shelf space before the addition of layered products such as compilers, databases, multi-vendor networking, and programming tools. Recent (since VMS version 5) DEC documentation comes with grey binders; under VMS version 4 the binders were orange and under version 3 they were blue. Often contracted to "Gray Wall".
- binary weapon — a chemical weapon consisting of a projectile containing two substances separately that mix to produce a lethal agent when the projectile is fired
- bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
- bladder wrack — any of various brown algae (genera Ascophyllum and Fucus), having a flattened body and conspicuous air bladders
- blaenau gwent — a county borough of SE Wales, created in 1996 from NW Gwent. Administrative centre: Ebbw Vale. Pop: 68 900 (2003 est). Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
- blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
- blow a gasket — to burst out in anger
- blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
- blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
- bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
- bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
- bottled water — water sold in bottles
- bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
- bow and arrow — a weapon consisting of a bow together with an arrow that may be fired from it
- bowling alley — A bowling alley is a building which contains several tracks for bowling.
- bowling match — a game of bowls
- bowman's root — an eastern U.S. plant, Gillenia trifoliata, of the rose family, having terminal clusters of white flowers.
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