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13-letter words containing b, o, t

  • birthing pool — a large bath in which a woman can give birth
  • birthing room — a section of a hospital or an outpatient facility set aside and equipped for childbirth and usually simulating a home environment in which family members or friends may be present during the delivery.
  • bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
  • bishop violet — a reddish purple.
  • bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
  • bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
  • bite your lip — If you bite your lip, you try very hard not to show the anger or distress that you are feeling.
  • bitonal image — (graphics)   An image consisting only of a foreground colour and a background colour. Compare monochrome.
  • bits and bobs — Bits and bobs are small objects or parts of something.
  • 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.
  • bl lac object — an extremely compact violently variable form of active galaxy
  • black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
  • 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
  • blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
  • blastomycosis — a fungal infection particularly affecting the lungs
  • blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
  • block capital — a sans-serif letter with lines of uniform weight.
  • block letters — Block letters are the same as block capitals.
  • blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
  • blood blister — a blister filled with blood
  • blood brother — A man's blood brother is a man he has sworn to treat as a brother, often in a ceremony which involves mixing a small amount of their blood.
  • blood product — a pharmaceutical product made from blood, such as Factor VIII
  • blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
  • blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
  • 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 a gasket — to burst out in anger
  • blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
  • blue asbestos — a common name for the mineral crocidolite, a variety of asbestos found in Africa and Australia
  • 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.
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • body stocking — A body stocking is a piece of clothing that covers the whole of someone's body and fits tightly. Body stockings are often worn by dancers.
  • body-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points at the centers of the unit cells.
  • bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
  • boiling point — The boiling point of a liquid is the temperature at which it starts to change into steam or vapour. For example, the boiling point of water is 100° centigrade.
  • boite de nuit — boîte.
  • bollito misto — an Italian dish of mixed meats, as beef, chicken, sausage, and veal, simmered with vegetables and seasonings in broth.
  • bolt up right — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
  • bolting cloth — a sturdy fabric, usually of fine silk or nylon mesh, used chiefly in serigraphy, embroidery, and as a foundation fabric for wigs.
  • bombastically — (of speech, writing, etc.) high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious.
  • bomber jacket — A bomber jacket is a short jacket which is gathered into a band at the waist or hips.
  • bona vacantia — unclaimed goods
  • bonanza state — a name for the state of Montana
  • bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
  • bonnet monkey — an Indian macaque, Macaca radiata, with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
  • bonus eventus — the ancient Roman god of agricultural prosperity.
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