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13-letter words containing b, o, n

  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • personal best — A sports player's personal best is the highest score or fastest time that they have ever achieved.
  • phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
  • phony-baloney — nonsense; baloney.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pilot balloon — a balloon for the visual observation of upper-atmosphere wind currents.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • pink bollworm — the larva of a gelechiid moth, Pectinophora gossypiella, that feeds on the seeds of the bolls of cotton and was introduced into cotton-growing regions of the world from Asia.
  • plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
  • plumbosolvent — able to dissolve lead
  • pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
  • polling booth — a booth in which voters cast their votes.
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
  • pomme blanche — breadroot.
  • pompano beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
  • postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • postpubescent — a young person in his or her early teens.
  • pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
  • presubmission — an act or instance of submitting.
  • principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
  • pro-abolition — the act of abolishing: the abolition of war.
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • property bond — a bond issued by a life-assurance company, the premiums for which are invested in a property-owning fund
  • proton number — the number of positive charges or protons in the nucleus of an atom of a given element, and therefore also the number of electrons normally surrounding the nucleus. Symbol: Z. Abbreviation: at. no.;
  • public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
  • purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
  • quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • rabbath ammon — Amman.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
  • rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • random number — pseudorandom number
  • random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
  • re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
  • reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
  • recombination — any of several processes by which genetic material of different origins becomes combined. It most commonly occurs between two sets of parental chromosomes during production of germ cells
  • recommendable — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
  • recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
  • record button — the button that you press on a device or remote control to begin recording sound, images, etc
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