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

  • balsamiferous — yielding or producing balsam
  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
  • barbados aloe — a tropical aloe, Aloe barbadensis (or A. vera), of the lily family, having clusters of yellow flowers: its juice is used medicinally.
  • barber's pole — a sign outside a barber's shop consisting of a pole painted with red and white spiral stripes
  • barcoo salute — a movement of the hand to brush flies away from the face
  • baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • bazillionaire — (humorous) An incredibly rich person.
  • 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
  • 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
  • bibliothecary — a librarian
  • bibliotherapy — the use of reading as therapy
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
  • bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
  • billiard room — a room in a house, club, etc., where billiards is played.
  • bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
  • biobehavioral — of or relating to the application of biological methods and ideas to the study of behavior in an attempt to understand emotions and reactions in terms of brain and physiological function.
  • biodegradable — Something that is biodegradable breaks down or decays naturally without any special scientific treatment, and can therefore be thrown away without causing pollution.
  • bioelectrical — relating to electrical current generated by biological activity
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
  • black hickory — a species of smooth-barked hickory, Carya tomentosa, with fragrant foliage that turns bright yellow in autumn
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
  • blarney stone — a stone in Blarney Castle, in the SW Republic of Ireland, said to endow whoever kisses it with the gift of the gab and skill in flattery
  • blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
  • blepharospasm — spasm of the muscle of the eyelids, causing the eyes to shut tightly, either as a response to painful stimuli or occurring as a form of dystonia
  • block diagram — a diagram showing the interconnections between the parts of an industrial process
  • block release — the release of industrial trainees from work for study at a college for several weeks
  • bloody caesar — a drink consisting of vodka, juice made from clams and tomatoes, and usually Worcester sauce and hot pepper sauce
  • 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.
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