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13-letter words containing b, o

  • biotechnology — Biotechnology is the use of living parts such as cells or bacteria in industry and technology.
  • biotic factor — a living thing, as an animal or plant, that influences or affects an ecosystem: How do humans affect other biotic factors? Weather is not a biotic factor because it is not alive.
  • bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
  • bird of peace — a dove.
  • birth control — Birth control means planning whether to have children, and using contraception to prevent having them when they are not wanted.
  • 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 sleeve — a full sleeve gathered at the wrist
  • bishop violet — a reddish purple.
  • bishop's ring — a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.
  • bishop's weed — goutweed.
  • bishop's-weed — goutweed.
  • 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 buffalo — a buffalofish, Ictiobus niger, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainage systems south to Mexico.
  • black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
  • black diamond — coal (sense 1)
  • black economy — The black economy consists of the buying, selling, and producing of goods or services that goes on without the government being informed, so that people can avoid paying tax on them.
  • black hickory — a species of smooth-barked hickory, Carya tomentosa, with fragrant foliage that turns bright yellow in autumn
  • 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
  • black-bag job — surreptitious or illegal entry or activity by government agents seeking incriminating evidence.
  • blackjack oak — a small oak tree, Quercus marilandica, of the southeastern US, with blackish bark and fan-shaped leaves
  • 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
  • blasco ibanez — Vicente (biˈθente). 1867–1928, Spanish novelist, whose books include Blood and Sand (1909) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916)
  • blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
  • blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
  • blastomycosis — a fungal infection particularly affecting the lungs
  • bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
  • blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
  • blepharospasm — spasm of the muscle of the eyelids, causing the eyes to shut tightly, either as a response to painful stimuli or occurring as a form of dystonia
  • block booking — the making of bookings for a number of people, or e.g. purchasing a number of seats in a theatre, concert hall, etc at the same time
  • block capital — a sans-serif letter with lines of uniform weight.
  • block diagram — a diagram showing the interconnections between the parts of an industrial process
  • block letters — Block letters are the same as block capitals.
  • block release — the release of industrial trainees from work for study at a college for several weeks
  • blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
  • blood alcohol — alcohol that is circulating in the blood
  • 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 diamond — a diamond sold to help finance a military campaign
  • blood glucose — Blood glucose is glucose (= a type of sugar) in the bloodstream.
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