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13-letter words containing a, e, o

  • 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 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 hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
  • be nuts about — to be greatly in love with
  • 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
  • beacon status — a ranking awarded by the government to an organization, rendering it eligible for extra funding, and aimed at encouraging organizations to share good practice with each other
  • beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaking joint — a straight joint made by several members, as strips of flooring, ending at the same line.
  • bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
  • beast of prey — any animal that hunts other animals for food
  • beat sb to it — If you intend to do something but someone beats you to it, they do it before you do.
  • beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
  • beauteousness — The state or quality of being beauteous.
  • beauty editor — the person in charge of a section of newspaper or magazine devoted to cosmetics, etc
  • 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.
  • bed and board — sleeping accommodation and meals
  • bedroom farce — a light comedy about sexual relationships
  • behavioristic — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • behaviourally — from a behavioural point of view
  • beige toaster — Macintosh
  • 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
  • beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
  • benito juarez — Benito (Pablo) [be-nee-taw pah-vlaw] /bɛˈni tɔ ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1806–72, president of Mexico 1857–72.
  • benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
  • benton harbor — a city in SW Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
  • benzalacetone — benzylidene acetone.
  • benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
  • bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • beta carotene — a yellowish form of carotene: a dietary deficiency of this is associated with a greater risk of certain cancers
  • beta function — a function of two variables, usually expressed as an improper integral and equal to the quotient of the product of the values of the gamma function at each variable divided by the value of the gamma function at the sum of the variables.
  • beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
  • beta receptor — a receptor, found on the surface of some cells of the sympathetic nervous system, that is stimulated by certain adrenergic substances: such stimulation results in certain physiological responses, such as acceleration of the action of the heart and dilatation of the arteries supplying heart and skeletal muscles
  • beta-blocking — acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
  • beta-carotene — the most abundant of various isomers of carotene, C 40 H 56 , that can be converted by the body to vitamin A.
  • 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.
  • beta-receptor — a site on a cell, as of the heart, that, upon interaction with epinephrine or norepinephrine, controls heartbeat and heart contractability, vasodilation, smooth muscle inhibition, and other physiological processes.
  • betamethasone — a synthetic analogue of a glucocorticoid, C 22 H 29 FO 5 , used in various forms in the treatment of inflammation, allergies, and tumors, and for replacement therapy in adrenal insufficiency.
  • beverage room — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc, in which alcoholic drinks are served
  • beyond a joke — If you say that an annoying or worrying situation is beyond a joke, you are emphasizing that it is worse than you think is fair or reasonable.
  • 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
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