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13-letter words containing b, a, w

  • braillewriter — a machine, similar to a typewriter, for writing texts in Braille.
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • brazilian wax — the process of removing all or almost all pubic and other hair in the pelvic area by applying hot wax.
  • bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • break it down — stop it
  • breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
  • bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
  • bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
  • 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.
  • bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
  • 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
  • buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
  • buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
  • businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
  • butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
  • 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.
  • cabbage white — any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae
  • cable railway — a railway on which individual cars are drawn along by a strong cable or metal chain operated by a stationary motor
  • cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
  • cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
  • climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
  • club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
  • cobalt yellow — aureolin.
  • cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
  • constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
  • coulomb's law — the principle that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. A similar law holds for particles with mass
  • cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
  • double whammy — twofold misfortune
  • drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • finback whale — rorqual
  • gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
  • glass-blowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
  • hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
  • hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
  • hubli-dharwad — a city in Karnataka, SW India: the union of two cities, Hubli and Dharwar.
  • hubli-dharwar — city in SW India: pop. 648,000
  • kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
  • know by heart — have memorized
  • knowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
  • lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
  • lavatory bowl — the part inside a lavatory containing water and fitted with a water-flushing device and connected to a drain
  • leibniz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
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