13-letter words containing b, i, o, s
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
- buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
- bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
- burglariously — in the manner of a burglar or buglary
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- busto arsizio — a city in Lombardy, N Italy.
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- carbolic soap — a disinfectant soap containing phenol
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
- chalcostibite — a mineral, antimony copper sulfide, CuSbS 2 , occurring in lead-gray crystals.
- chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
- chinese boxes — a nest of boxes, each of which fits into the next larger box
- christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- 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.
- coccobacillus — a spherelike bacillus.
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
- compatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibilist — (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- confiscatable — confiscable
- 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.
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
- contrabassist — Someone who plays the contrabass.
- contributions — Plural form of contribution.
- core business — the business activity that is main source of a company's profits and success, usually the activity that the company was originally set up to carry out
- corrosibility — corrodibility
- cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
- crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
- cryobiologist — A biologist who specializes in cryobiology.
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person