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13-letter words containing b, o, t

  • antiobscenity — opposed to or working to combat obscenity
  • antiscorbutic — preventing or curing scurvy
  • apportionable — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
  • arabicization — the gradual change of a culture into one that incorporates Arab culture and/or speaks Arabic
  • arbitrational — relating to, involving, or resulting from arbitration
  • arboriculture — the cultivation of trees or shrubs, esp for the production of timber
  • archaeobotany — the analysis and interpretation of plant remains found at archaeological sites
  • arithmophobia — the fear of numbers
  • associability — the condition of or the capacity to be associable or linked or related in thinking
  • asteroid belt — the concentrations of asteroids that move around the sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
  • at one's back — behind, esp in support or pursuit
  • at one's best — in one's best mood, form, health, etc.
  • at the double — at twice normal marching speed
  • atomic number — the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of an element
  • atrabilarious — Characterized by melancholy or gloom.
  • attributional — of or relating to the act of attributing
  • auction block — Also called block. a platform from which an auctioneer sells: the old courthouse where slaves were sold from the auction block.
  • austin dobson — (Henry) Austin, 1840–1921, English poet, biographer, and essayist.
  • autobiography — Your autobiography is an account of your life, which you write yourself.
  • autostability — the property of being stable either as a result of inherent characteristics or of built-in devices
  • baal shem tov — original name Israel ben Eliezer ?1700–60, Jewish religious leader, teacher, and healer in Poland: founder of modern Hasidism
  • baal-shem-tov — (Israel ben Eliezer"Besht") c1700–60, Ukrainian teacher and religious leader: founder of the Hasidic movement of Judaism.
  • bachelor flat — a flat lived in, or intended for a bachelor
  • bachelorettes — Plural form of bachelorette.
  • back mutation — the reversion of a mutant to the original phenotype
  • back to front — If you are wearing something back to front, you are wearing it with the back of it at the front of your body. If you do something back to front, you do it the wrong way around, starting with the part that should come last.
  • backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
  • backformation — Alternative spelling of back-formation.
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
  • bacteriocidal — Alternative spelling of bactericidal.
  • bacteriogenic — Caused by bacteria.
  • bacteriologic — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
  • bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
  • bacteriolysis — the destruction or disintegration of bacteria
  • bacteriolytic — disintegration or dissolution of bacteria.
  • bacteriophage — a virus that is parasitic in a bacterium and multiplies within its host, which is destroyed when the new viruses are released
  • bacteriophagy — the action of a bacteriophage
  • bacterioscopy — the examination of bacteria with a microscope.
  • bacteriostats — Plural form of bacteriostat.
  • bacteriotoxin — any toxin that kills bacteria
  • bacterization — subjection to bacterial action
  • badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
  • bag of tricks — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
  • bag of waters — a fluid-filled membranous sac in the pregnant uterus that encloses and cushions the fetus, normally breaking at or just before the time of birth; the amnion.
  • balkanization — If you disapprove of the division of a country into separate independent states, you can refer to the Balkanization of the country.
  • ballet lesson — a class in which ballet is taught
  • ballet school — a school where professional ballet dancers are trained
  • ballistospore — a spore, esp a fungal spore, that is forcefully ejected from its source
  • balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
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