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13-letter words containing b, o, n

  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • redondo beach — a city in SW California.
  • reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
  • relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • republication — publication anew.
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • reverberation — a reechoed sound.
  • ribbon window — a long window made up of a number of individual compartments set together horizontally with little or no division.
  • ribosomal rna — a type of RNA, distinguished by its length and abundance, functioning in protein synthesis as a component of ribosomes. Abbreviation: rRNA.
  • road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.
  • robben island — a small island in South Africa, 11 km (7 miles) off the Cape Peninsula: formerly used by the South African government to house political prisoners
  • robber barons — History/Historical. a noble who robbed travelers passing through his lands.
  • robber trench — a trench that originally contained the foundations of a wall, the stones of which have been taken away
  • robert fulton — Robert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat.
  • robot dancing — a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements
  • rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • rock climbing — the sport of climbing sheer rocky surfaces on the sides of mountains, often with the aid of special equipment.
  • rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
  • rond de jambe — a circular movement of the leg.
  • round of beef — round1 (def 35a).
  • rum rebellion — the deposition of Governor William Bligh in 1808 by officers of the New South Wales Corps, caused by his interference in their trading activities, esp in the trafficking of rum
  • run on a bank — A run on a bank is a situation in which borrowers are worried that the bank will fail and they all try to withdraw money at the same time.
  • running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
  • sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
  • saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
  • san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
  • san pablo bay — the N part of San Francisco Bay, in W California.
  • scotch bonnet — a small, irregularly shaped, extremely hot chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense related to the habanero and ranging from yellow to red.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • seasonability — fact of being seasonable
  • second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
  • second banana — a comic who supports the leading comedian, often as a straight man, especially in burlesque or vaudeville.
  • self-begotten — a past participle of beget.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • self-oblivion — the state of being completely forgotten or unknown: a former movie star now in oblivion.
  • semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
  • sensible note — the major seventh note of any scale
  • shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
  • shoeshine boy — a man or boy who cleans shoes
  • shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
  • show business — the entertainment industry, as theater, motion pictures, television, radio, carnival, and circus.
  • simon bolivar — Simón [sahy-muh n;; Spanish see-mawn] /ˈsaɪ mən;; Spanish siˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), ("El Libertador") 1783–1830, Venezuelan statesman: leader of revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule.
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • skin and bone — You can say someone is just skin and bone when you do not approve of the fact that they are very thin.
  • snooze button — a button on an alarm clock that, if pressed when the alarm is going off, will suspend its ringing for a brief time before allowing it to go off again
  • snowball bush — guelder rose.
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