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

  • book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
  • boolean logic — (logic)   A logic based on Boolean algebra.
  • booster cable — either of a pair of electric cables having clamps at each end and used for starting the engine of a vehicle whose battery is dead.
  • bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
  • borage family — any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.
  • border patrol — a government agency in charge of preventing terrorists, weapons, and illegal immigrants entering the country
  • borlotti bean — variety of kidney bean
  • bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
  • bottled water — water sold in bottles
  • bougainvillea — Bougainvillea is a climbing plant that has thin, red or purple flowers and grows mainly in hot countries.
  • bouillabaisse — Bouillabaisse is a rich stew or soup of fish and vegetables.
  • bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
  • bouncy castle — A bouncy castle is a large object filled with air, often in the shape of a castle, which children play on at a fairground or other outdoor event.
  • boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
  • bowling alley — A bowling alley is a building which contains several tracks for bowling.
  • boycott apple — (legal)   Some time before 1989, Apple Computer, Inc. started a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, claiming they had breeched Apple's copyright on the look and feel of the Macintosh user interface. In December 1989, Xerox failed to sue Apple Computer, claiming that the software for Apple's Lisa computer and Macintosh Finder, both copyrighted in 1987, were derived from two Xerox programs: Smalltalk, developed in the mid-1970s and Star, copyrighted in 1981. Apple wanted to stop people from writing any program that worked even vaguely like a Macintosh. If such look and feel lawsuits succeed they could put an end to free software that could substitute for commercial software. In the weeks after the suit was filed, Usenet reverberated with condemnation for Apple. GNU supporters Richard Stallman, John Gilmore and Paul Rubin decided to take action against Apple. Apple's reputation as a force for progress came from having made better computers; but The League for Programming Freedom believed that Apple wanted to make all non-Apple computers worse. They therefore campaigned to discourage people from using Apple products or working for Apple or any other company threatening similar obstructionist tactics (e.g. Lotus and Xerox). Because of this boycott the Free Software Foundation for a long time didn't support Macintosh Unix in their software. In 1995, the LPF and the FSF decided to end the boycott.
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • bracket clock — a small clock designed to be placed on a bracket or shelf.
  • breech-loader — a firearm that is loaded at the breech
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
  • broadly based — Something that is broadly based involves many different kinds of things or people.
  • broccoli rabe — a plant, Brassica rapa ruvo, of which the slightly bitter, dark-green leaves and clustered flower buds are eaten as a vegetable.
  • bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
  • brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
  • bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
  • buffalo berry — a shrub (genus Shepherdia) of the oleaster family, native to W North America, with silvery leaves
  • buffalo grove — a city in NE Illinois.
  • bulbourethral — of or relating to the rounded mass of tissue surrounding the urethra at the root of the penis.
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
  • by-your-leave — a request for permission (esp in the phrase without so much as a by-your-leave)
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
  • car boot sale — A car boot sale is a sale where people sell things they own and do not want from a little stall or from the back of their car.
  • carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
  • carlton table — an English writing table of c1800, having curved rear corners and a top with drawers surmounted by a U -shaped section of drawers and cabinets, topped by a brass or ormolu gallery surrounding three sides of the writing area.
  • carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
  • cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
  • chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
  • charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
  • chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
  • chocolate bar — a block of chocolate
  • chocolate-box — Chocolate-box places or images are very pretty but in a boring or conventional way.
  • clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
  • clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
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