13-letter words containing b, o
- beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
- beauteousness — The state or quality of being beauteous.
- beauty editor — the person in charge of a section of newspaper or magazine devoted to cosmetics, etc
- beauty parlor — A beauty parlor is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example, to have their hair, nails, or makeup done.
- bed and board — sleeping accommodation and meals
- bedroom farce — a light comedy about sexual relationships
- bedroom scene — a scene in which lovers are in bed
- bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
- bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
- beef bouillon — a broth made either by straining water in which bits of lean beef have been cooked or by dissolving beef extract in hot water.
- beehive house — a prehistoric circular building found in various parts of Europe, usually of stone and having a dome-shaped roof
- beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
- beetle-browed — having bushy or overhanging eyebrows
- beg to differ — politely disagree
- behavioristic — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- behaviourally — from a behavioural point of view
- beige toaster — Macintosh
- 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.
- belly of pork — a fatty cut of meat from the pig's belly
- belly-flopper — an awkward, usually unintentional dive in which the front of the body strikes the water horizontally, the abdomen or chest bearing the brunt of the impact.
- belongingness — the human state of being an essential part of something
- benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
- benito juarez — Benito (Pablo) [be-nee-taw pah-vlaw] /bɛˈni tɔ ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1806–72, president of Mexico 1857–72.
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- benton harbor — a city in SW Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- benzalacetone — benzylidene acetone.
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
- benzoyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 5 O–, derived from benzoic acid.
- bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
- berkeley logo — (language) A Logo interpreter by Brian Harvey <[email protected]>. Berkeley Logo programs will run on Unix, IBM PC, or Macintosh. It doesn't do anything fancy about graphics and only allows one turtle. Version: 4.6, as of 2000-03-21.
- bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
- bernoulli box — (storage) A high capacity storage device, Iomega Corporation's first popular product, that spins a mylar disk over a read-write head using the Bernoulli principle.
- bespottedness — the state of being covered with spots or blemishes
- bessel method — a method of ascertaining position by the use of a map showing prominent features of the terrain and enabling one to sight through them to obtain a fix.
- best of breed — The best of breed is the animal that wins first prize in its section at a dog show.
- bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
- beta carotene — a yellowish form of carotene: a dietary deficiency of this is associated with a greater risk of certain cancers
- beta function — a function of two variables, usually expressed as an improper integral and equal to the quotient of the product of the values of the gamma function at each variable divided by the value of the gamma function at the sum of the variables.
- beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
- beta receptor — a receptor, found on the surface of some cells of the sympathetic nervous system, that is stimulated by certain adrenergic substances: such stimulation results in certain physiological responses, such as acceleration of the action of the heart and dilatation of the arteries supplying heart and skeletal muscles
- beta-blocking — acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
- beta-carotene — the most abundant of various isomers of carotene, C 40 H 56 , that can be converted by the body to vitamin A.
- 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.
- beta-receptor — a site on a cell, as of the heart, that, upon interaction with epinephrine or norepinephrine, controls heartbeat and heart contractability, vasodilation, smooth muscle inhibition, and other physiological processes.
- betamethasone — a synthetic analogue of a glucocorticoid, C 22 H 29 FO 5 , used in various forms in the treatment of inflammation, allergies, and tumors, and for replacement therapy in adrenal insufficiency.
- beverage room — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc, in which alcoholic drinks are served
- beyond a joke — If you say that an annoying or worrying situation is beyond a joke, you are emphasizing that it is worse than you think is fair or reasonable.