13-letter words containing a, n, o
- bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
- bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
- bring to pass — to cause to happen
- brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- bronchography — radiography of the bronchial tubes after the introduction of a radiopaque medium into the bronchi
- bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
- brooklyn park — city in SE Minn.: suburb of Minneapolis: pop. 67,000
- brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
- brutalization — to make brutal.
- bud variation — any variation in a bud due to changes in either its genetic composition or environment or both such that the resulting flower, fruit, or shoot differs from others of the same plant or species.
- buenas noches — good night
- bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
- buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
- bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
- buoyancy tank — an enclosed air-filled section of a boat, ship or hovercraft designed to keep it afloat and prevent it from sinking
- buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
- burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- butanoic acid — kind of acid
- by a long way — You can use by a long way to emphasize that something is, for example, much better, worse, or bigger than any other thing of that kind.
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
- c corporation — A C corporation is a type of corporation which is taxed on its income.
- cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
- cacophonously — In a cacophonous manner.
- café coronary — a fatal choking condition brought on when food, dentures, etc. lodge in a person's throat while he or she is eating: it is often misinterpreted as a heart attack
- cainotophobia — Alternative form of cainophobia.
- calcification — the process of calcifying or becoming calcified
- calculational — relating to calculation
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
- camerapersons — Plural form of cameraperson.
- campaniliform — Alternative form of campaniform.
- campanologist — the principles or art of making bells, bell ringing, etc.
- camping stool — a stool which is suitable for use in temporary quarters, on holiday, etc, esp by being portable and easy to set up
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
- cancellations — Plural form of cancellation.
- cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
- candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
- cannel (coal) — a compact variety of bituminous coal that was formed chiefly from spores and burns with a bright, steady flame
- cannon fodder — If someone in authority regards people they are in charge of as cannon fodder, they do not care if these people are harmed or lost in the course of their work.
- cannonballing — Present participle of cannonball.
- canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
- canonical age — the age specified by canon law when a person becomes eligible to participate in a certain rite or hold a certain office.
- canton enamel — Chinese enamelware similar to Limoges.
- canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.