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13-letter words containing a, b

  • barristership — the office of a barrister
  • 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
  • baryon number — the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
  • 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 exchange — a nonprofit general store at a military base, for the sale of merchandise for personal use, refreshments, etc.
  • 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
  • basement-rock — the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
  • 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 fortran — (language)   A subset of Fortran.
  • basic plumage — the plumage assumed by an adult bird at its complete, usually annual, molt.
  • basic process — Military. basic training. a soldier or airman receiving basic training.
  • basidiomycete — any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the spores are produced in basidia. The group includes boletes, puffballs, smuts, and rusts
  • basidiospores — Plural form of basidiospore.
  • basket clause — an all-inclusive or comprehensive clause in a contract
  • basket dinner — a group social gathering, as of church members, to which participants contribute casseroles or other dishes to share.
  • 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.
  • basking shark — a very large plankton-eating shark, Cetorhinus maximus, often floating at the sea surface: family Cetorhinidae
  • bass clarinet — a clarinet with the lowest range, in the octave below the B-flat clarinet
  • bass response — the response of an audio reproduction system or component to low frequencies
  • bass trombone — the lower-pitched of the two main types of trombone
  • bass-baritone — a singer or voice in the bass range with baritone qualities
  • bassenthwaite — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria near Keswick. Length: 6 km (4 miles)
  • basso rilievo — bas-relief
  • basso-relievo — bas-relief
  • bastard amber — a color of gelatin commonly used in stage lighting, similar to light amber but having a pinkish cast.
  • bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
  • bastard title — half title (def 1).
  • bastard-title — Also called bastard title. the first printed page of certain books, appearing after the end papers and before the title page and containing only the title of the book.
  • bat-eared fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
  • batan islands — a group of islands in the Philippines, north of Luzon. Capital: Basco. Pop: 16 467 (2000). Area: 197 sq km (76 sq miles)
  • batch-process — to perform batch processing on (files)
  • bathtub curve — Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time: initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it "tires out". See also burn-in period, infant mortality.
  • bathurst burr — an Australian plant, Xanthium spinosum, having numerous hooked burrs that became entangled in sheep's wool
  • bathylimnetic — (of an organism) living in the depths of lakes and marshes
  • baton twirler — someone who twirls a baton, esp a drum major or majorette
  • batrachotoxin — a steroidal alkaloid, C31H42N2O6, found in the skin of certain Neotropical frogs (genus Phyllobates) and used on poison arrows: one of the most powerful natural neurotoxins known
  • battered wife — See under battered woman syndrome.
  • battering ram — A battering ram is a long heavy piece of wood that is used to knock down the locked doors of buildings.
  • battering-ram — an ancient military device with a heavy horizontal ram for battering down walls, gates, etc.
  • batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
  • 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.
  • battle jacket — a closefitting jacket reaching to the waist
  • battlecruiser — A large warship of a type built in the early 20th century, carrying similar armament to a battleship but faster and more lightly armored.
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