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13-letter words containing b, e, f

  • beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
  • benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
  • benefit match — a sports match organized to raise money for charity, or for a particular player
  • best of breed — The best of breed is the animal that wins first prize in its section at a dog show.
  • 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.
  • beyond belief — You use beyond belief to emphasize that something is true to a very great degree or that it happened to a very great degree.
  • bigleaf maple — a tree, Acer macrophyllum, of western North America, having large, deeply lobed leaves and fragrant yellow flowers in drooping clusters.
  • bikini briefs — a pair of men's or women's underpants that barely cover the groin area
  • bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
  • bill of entry — a list of goods received at a customs house for export or import
  • binary prefix — (unit)   (Or "IEC prefix") A prefix used with a unit of data to mean multiplication by a power of 1024. Binary prefixes are most often used with "byte" (e.g. "kilobyte") but also with bit (e.g. "megabit"). For example, the term kilobyte has historically been used to mean 1024 bytes, and megabyte to mean 1,048,576 bytes. The multipliers 1024 and 1,048,576 are powers of 1024, which is itself a power of two (1024 = 2^10). It is this factor of two that gives the name "binary prefix". This is in contrast to a decimal prefix denoting a power of 1000, which is itself a power of ten (1000 = 10^3). Decimal prefixes are used in science and engineering and are specified in widely adopted SI standards. Note that the actual prefix - kilo or mega - is the same, it is the interpretation that differs. The difference between the two interpretations increases with each multiplication, so while 1000 and 1024 differ by only 2.4%, 1000^6 and 1024^6 differ by 15%. The 1024-based interpretation of prefixes is often still used informally and especially when discussing the storage capacity of random-access memory. This has lead to storage device manufacturers being accused of false marketing for using the decimal interpretation where customers might assume the larger, historical, binary interpretation. In an attempt to clarify the distinction, in 1998 the IEC specified that kilobyte, megabyte, etc. should only be used for powers of 1000 (following SI). They specified new prefixes for powers of 1024 containing "bi" for "binary": kibibyte, mebibyte, etc.; an idea originally propsed by IUPAC. IEC also specified new abbreviations Ki, Mi, etc. for the new prefixes. Many other standards bodies such as NIST, IEEE and BIPM support this proposal but as of 2013 its use is rare in non-technical circles. Specific units of IEC 60027-2 A.2 and ISO/IEC 80000
  • bird of peace — a dove.
  • birefringence — the splitting of a light ray, generally by a crystal, into two components that travel at different velocities and are polarized at right angles to each other
  • biscuit-fired — (of a ceramic object) fired to harden the body.
  • blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
  • blast furnace — A blast furnace is a large structure in which iron ore is heated under pressure so that it melts and the pure iron metal separates out and can be collected.
  • blind freddie — an imaginary person representing the highest degree of incompetence (esp in the phrase Blind Freddie could see that!)
  • blood profile — a diagnostic test that determines the exact numbers of each type of blood cell in a fixed quantity of blood. Abbreviation: CBC.
  • blood-profile — a diagnostic test that determines the exact numbers of each type of blood cell in a fixed quantity of blood. Abbreviation: CBC.
  • bloomfieldian — Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.
  • blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
  • blue rockfish — a bluish-black rockfish, Sebastodes mystinus, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters of North America.
  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
  • boniface viii — original name Benedict Caetano. ?1234–1303, pope (1294–1303)
  • book of kells — Book of Kells.
  • 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.
  • bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
  • bottom feeder — a fish that feeds on material at the bottom of a river, lake, sea, etc
  • bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
  • box jellyfish — any of various highly venomous jellyfishes of the order Cubomedusae, esp Chironex fleckeri, of Australian tropical waters, having a cuboidal body with tentacles hanging from each of the lower corners
  • branch office — the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
  • break feeding — the feeding of animals on paddocks where feeding space is controlled by the frequent movement of an electric fence
  • breakfast bar — a counter in a kitchen where people can sit and have breakfast
  • breakfast set — a set of plates, bowls, eggcups, etc, specially designed to be used at breakfast
  • breidha fjord — an inlet of Denmark Strait on the NW coast of Iceland.
  • brief against — If someone, especially a politician, briefs against another person, he or she tries to harm the other person's reputation by saying something unfavourable about them.
  • bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
  • 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.
  • buffer memory — a temporary holding area for data
  • buffet supper — supper at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • buffing wheel — a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing
  • bumblebeefish — any of several gobies of the genus Brachygobius, inhabiting waters of the Malay Archipelago and having brown and yellow bands on the body that resemble the markings of a bumblebee.
  • bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
  • 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.
  • butcher knife — a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.
  • butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
  • butterfly net — a lightweight, fine net on the end of a pole used for catching butterflies
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