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13-letter words containing b, e, s, l

  • business plan — A business plan is a detailed plan for setting up or developing a business, especially one that is written in order to borrow money.
  • 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
  • butler's tray — a tray resting on or attached to an X-shaped, often folding stand, on which are kept drink bottles and glasses
  • butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
  • butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
  • by yourselves — if you are by yourselves, or all by yourselves, you are alone
  • cable release — a short length of flexible cable, used to operate the shutter of a camera without shaking it
  • calabash tree — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
  • call sb names — If someone calls you names, they insult you by saying unpleasant things to you or about you.
  • candleberries — Plural form of candleberry.
  • cap and bells — the traditional garb of a court jester, including a cap with bells attached to it
  • capstan table — drum table.
  • 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.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • cause celebre — A cause célèbre is an issue, person, or criminal trial that has attracted a lot of public attention and discussion.
  • 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.
  • chastity belt — a locking beltlike device with a loop designed to go between a woman's legs in order to prevent her from having sexual intercourse
  • checkerblooms — Plural form of checkerbloom.
  • chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
  • clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
  • clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • classic blues — a type of city blues performed by a female singer accompanied by a small group
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • cleavableness — the quality of being cleavable
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
  • clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
  • come to blows — to fight
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
  • concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
  • concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
  • confiscatable — confiscable
  • console table — a table with one or more curved legs of bracket-like construction, designed to stand against a wall
  • constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
  • constrainable — able to be constrained
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • controllables — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
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