13-letter words containing b, o, l, a, n
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
- bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
- bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
- bazillionaire — (humorous) An incredibly rich person.
- beacon school — a notably successful school whose methods and practices are brought to the attention of the education service as a whole in order that they may be adopted by other schools
- beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- belgian congo — former Belgian colony (1908-60) in central Africa: now the country of Democratic Republic of the Congo
- bellefontaine — a city in W Ohio.
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- benzalacetone — benzylidene acetone.
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
- beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
- beta-blocking — acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
- beta-naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
- beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
- biconditional — (of a proposition) asserting that the existence or occurrence of one thing or event depends on, and is dependent on, the existence or occurrence of another, as “A if and only if B.”.
- bicontinental — of, on, or involving two continents: a bicontinental survey.
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
- bioequivalent — the condition in which different formulations of the same drug or chemical are equally absorbed when taken into the body.
- biomechanical — relating to biomechanics
- bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
- bitonal image — (graphics) An image consisting only of a foreground colour and a background colour. Compare monochrome.
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
- black diamond — coal (sense 1)
- black economy — The black economy consists of the buying, selling, and producing of goods or services that goes on without the government being informed, so that people can avoid paying tax on them.
- 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.
- blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
- blarney stone — a stone in Blarney Castle, in the SW Republic of Ireland, said to endow whoever kisses it with the gift of the gab and skill in flattery
- blasco ibanez — Vicente (biˈθente). 1867–1928, Spanish novelist, whose books include Blood and Sand (1909) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916)
- blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
- blood diamond — a diamond sold to help finance a military campaign
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- bloody sunday — (in Northern Ireland) 30th January 1972, when British soldiers shot dead thirteen marchers in Londonderry who were protesting against the UK government's policy of internment
- bloomfieldian — Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.
- blot analysis — a technique for analysing biological molecules, such as proteins (Western blot analysis), DNA (Southern blot analysis), and RNA (Northern blot analysis), involving their separation by gel electrophoresis, transfer to a nitrocellulose sheet, and subsequent analysis by autoradiography
- blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
- boat neckline — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- body and soul — You use body and soul to mean every part of you, including your mind and your emotions.
- body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
- boiling range — A boiling range is the temperature range involved in the distillation of oil, from the start to the time when it evaporates.
- bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
- bonin islands — a group of 27 volcanic islands in the W Pacific: occupied by the US after World War II; returned to Japan in 1968. Largest island: Chichijima. Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles)
- book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience