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

  • 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)
  • border patrol — a government agency in charge of preventing terrorists, weapons, and illegal immigrants entering the country
  • borlotti bean — variety of kidney bean
  • bottle blonde — a woman with dyed blonde hair
  • bottle-opener — A bottle-opener is a metal device for removing caps or tops from bottles.
  • bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
  • bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
  • bottled water — water sold in bottles
  • bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
  • 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.
  • bow collector — a sliding current collector, consisting of a bow-shaped strip mounted on a hinged framework, used on trains, etc, to collect current from an overhead-wire
  • 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.
  • bracket clock — a small clock designed to be placed on a bracket or shelf.
  • braillewriter — a machine, similar to a typewriter, for writing texts in Braille.
  • brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
  • breathability — fitness to be breathed
  • brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
  • bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
  • brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
  • bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
  • bristle brush — a brush made with animal bristles
  • bristle-grass — any of various grasses of the genus Setaria, such as S. viridis, having a bristly inflorescence
  • british isles — a group of islands in W Europe, consisting of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Orkney, Shetland, the Channel Islands belonging to Great Britain, and the islands adjacent to these
  • brittany blue — a medium greenish blue.
  • bromo-seltzer — a compound containing a bromide, sodium bicarbonate, etc., used for relief from headaches and upset stomachs, and as a sedative
  • brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
  • bucket ladder — a series of buckets that move in a continuous chain, used to dredge riverbeds, etc, or to excavate land
  • building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
  • bulbourethral — of or relating to the rounded mass of tissue surrounding the urethra at the root of the penis.
  • bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
  • bull elephant — an adult male elephant
  • bullet-headed — with a head shaped like a bullet
  • bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
  • bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
  • 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
  • butcher block — designating or of a thick slab made by gluing together strips of hardwood, as maple or oak, used for counter and table tops, etc.
  • butcher linen — a strong, heavy fabric made of rayon or rayon and cotton with a linen finish, constructed in plain weave.
  • 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 cooler — an earthenware container, consisting of a dish and cover, used to keep butter cool
  • butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
  • butterfly net — a lightweight, fine net on the end of a pole used for catching butterflies
  • butterfly nut — wing nut.
  • butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
  • 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
  • butyl acetate — a colourless liquid with a fruity odour, existing in four isomeric forms. Three of the isomers are important solvents for cellulose lacquers. Formula: CH3COOC4H9
  • butyl nitrite — a volatile liquid, C 4 H 9 NO 2 , the vapor of which can cause headache and vasodilation, used as an active ingredient in some household deodorizers, and misused by inhalation to prolong the sensation of orgasm.
  • butyraldehyde — a colourless flammable pungent liquid used in the manufacture of resins. Formula: CH3(CH2)2CHO
  • byte compiler — byte-code compiler
  • cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
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