13-letter words containing b, o, i, s, e
- 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
- 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.
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- diabetologist — a person who studies diabetes
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- disembodiment — to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
- disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
- disembowelled — (chiefly, British) Simple past tense and past participle of disembowel.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
- disobligement — disobligation
- division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
- double vision — diplopia.
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
- endosymbiosis — Symbiosis in which one of the symbiotic organisms lives inside the other.
- endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
- ethnobotanist — A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany.
- exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
- exercise book — An exercise book is a small book that students use for writing in.
- exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
- exhibitionism — Extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself.
- exhibitionist — A person who behaves in an extravagant way in order to attract attention.
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
- fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
- foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island