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13-letter words containing b, i, t, e, o, n

  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • bitter orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • black section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
  • blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
  • blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • boat neckline — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
  • boite de nuit — boîte.
  • bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
  • booking agent — an agent who makes bookings, as reservations for travel or the theater or engagements for performers, for clients.
  • borlotti bean — variety of kidney bean
  • boron nitride — a white inert crystalline solid existing both in a graphite-like form and in an extremely hard diamond-like form (borazon). It is used as a refractory, high-temperature lubricant and insulator, and heat shield. Formula: BN
  • bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
  • bottom-unique — In domain theory, a function f is bottom-unique if f x = bottom <=> x = bottom A bottom-unique function is also strict.
  • bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
  • brazen it out — to act in a bold way as if one need not be ashamed
  • break it down — stop it
  • bring home to — to convince of
  • bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
  • bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
  • bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
  • brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
  • brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
  • by contraries — contrary to what is expected
  • by definition — If you say that something has a particular quality by definition, you mean that it has this quality simply because of what it is.
  • by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
  • capitate bone — the largest and central bone of the carpus, articulating with the second, third, and fourth metacarpal bones.
  • carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
  • 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.
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • cocaine habit — an addiction to cocaine
  • combativeness — The state of being combative.
  • conditionable — able to be conditioned
  • 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.
  • contributable — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • contribute to — to have a share in bringing about (a result); be partly responsible for
  • counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
  • counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
  • counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
  • cyanobacteria — a group of photosynthetic bacteria (phylum Cyanobacteria) containing a blue photosynthetic pigment
  • deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
  • debit account — a bank account which allows you to buy goods or services with money that you have put into the account
  • decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
  • decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
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