13-letter words containing b, u, l
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- bbn butterfly — (computer) A supercomputer developed at BBN Technologies, named after the "butterfly" multi-stage switching network around which it was built. It could have up to 512 CPUs connected to allow every CPU access to every other CPU's memory, albeit with about 15 times the latency than for its own. The earlier GP-1000 models used up to 256 Motorola 68020s. The later TC-2000 models used up to 512 Motorola 88100s. Language developed for, or ported to, the BBN Butterfly were Butterfly Common LISP, Butterfly Scheme, Delirium, and MultiScheme.
- be muffled up — If you are muffled up, you are wearing a lot of heavy clothes so that very little of your body or face is visible.
- be wild about — If you are wild about someone or something, you like them very much.
- beau brummell — any dandy or fop
- beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- 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.
- 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.
- behaviourally — from a behavioural point of view
- beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
- bell purchase — a tackle consisting of two standing single blocks, two running single blocks, a fall, and a runner, so arranged that it gives a mechanical advantage of six, neglecting friction.
- bengal quince — bael.
- benzoyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 5 O–, derived from benzoic acid.
- berkeley unix — Berkeley Software Distribution
- 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.
- beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
- bible-thumper — an enthusiastic or aggressive exponent of the Bible
- bibliolatrous — characterized by bibliolatry
- biculturalism — the characteristics, or policy, of a two-cultured society
- bidenticulate — having two small teeth or toothlike processes.
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
- binary pulsar — a pulsar in a binary system.
- bioaccumulate — (of substances, esp toxins) to build up within the tissues of organisms
- bioequivalent — the condition in which different formulations of the same drug or chemical are equally absorbed when taken into the body.
- birectangular — having two right angles.
- bite your lip — If you bite your lip, you try very hard not to show the anger or distress that you are feeling.
- 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 currant — the small, round, blackish, edible fruit of a widely cultivated shrub, Ribes nigrum, of the saxifrage family.
- black muslims — (esp in the US) a political and religious movement of Black people who adopt the religious practices of Islam and seek to establish a new Black nation
- black mustard — a Eurasian plant, Brassica (or Sinapsis) nigra, with clusters of yellow flowers and pungent seeds from which the condiment mustard is made: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- black pudding — Black pudding is a thick sausage which has a black skin and is made from pork fat and pig's blood.
- black quarter — blackleg (def 1).
- black russian — a drink made from one part coffee liqueur and two parts vodka, served over ice.
- black studies — a program of studies in black history and culture offered by a school or college, often including Afro-American history and black literature.
- black vulture — the Eurasian vulture, Aegypius monachus, of the family Accipitridae
- blaenau gwent — a county borough of SE Wales, created in 1996 from NW Gwent. Administrative centre: Ebbw Vale. Pop: 68 900 (2003 est). Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
- blame culture — the tendency to look for one person or organization that can be held responsible for a bad state of affairs, an accident, etc
- blanchisseuse — a washer-woman
- blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
- blast furnace — A blast furnace is a large structure in which iron ore is heated under pressure so that it melts and the pure iron metal separates out and can be collected.
- bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
- blood glucose — Blood glucose is glucose (= a type of sugar) in the bloodstream.
- blood product — a pharmaceutical product made from blood, such as Factor VIII
- blood pudding — Blood pudding is another word for black pudding.
- blood sausage — a kind of black sausage made from minced pork fat, pig's blood, and other ingredients
- bloodcurdling — terrifying; horrifying
- bloody sunday — (in Northern Ireland) 30th January 1972, when British soldiers shot dead thirteen marchers in Londonderry who were protesting against the UK government's policy of internment
- blow moulding — a process for moulding single-piece plastic objects in which a thermoplastic is extruded into a split mould and blown against its sides