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13-letter words containing c, o, a, e

  • beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
  • benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
  • benzalacetone — benzylidene acetone.
  • 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 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-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.
  • beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
  • bibliothecary — a librarian
  • bicontinental — of, on, or involving two continents: a bicontinental survey.
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • bignoniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bignoniaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including jacaranda, bignonia, and catalpa
  • bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
  • bioaccumulate — (of substances, esp toxins) to build up within the tissues of organisms
  • biochemically — the science dealing with the chemistry of living matter.
  • biocompatible — not rejected by the body
  • bioecological — the study of the interrelations among living organisms in their natural environment; ecology.
  • bioelectrical — relating to electrical current generated by biological activity
  • biomechanical — relating to biomechanics
  • biosystematic — relating to biosystematics
  • bird of peace — a dove.
  • bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
  • bl lac object — an extremely compact violently variable form of active galaxy
  • 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 section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
  • blasco ibanez — Vicente (biˈθente). 1867–1928, Spanish novelist, whose books include Blood and Sand (1909) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916)
  • block release — the release of industrial trainees from work for study at a college for several weeks
  • bloody caesar — a drink consisting of vodka, juice made from clams and tomatoes, and usually Worcester sauce and hot pepper sauce
  • blue copperas — a salt, copper sulfate, CuSO 4 ⋅5H 2 O, occurring naturally as large transparent, deep-blue triclinic crystals, appearing in its anhydrous state as a white powder: used chiefly as a mordant, insecticide, fungicide, and in engraving.
  • 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
  • bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • bomber jacket — A bomber jacket is a short jacket which is gathered into a band at the waist or hips.
  • bonanza creek — a stream in W Yukon Territory, Canada, flowing NW to the Klondike River near Dawson: gold strike 1896. 20 miles (32 km) long.
  • boniface viii — original name Benedict Caetano. ?1234–1303, pope (1294–1303)
  • boolean logic — (logic)   A logic based on Boolean algebra.
  • booster cable — either of a pair of electric cables having clamps at each end and used for starting the engine of a vehicle whose battery is dead.
  • bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
  • boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope
  • boron carbide — a black extremely hard inert substance having a high capture cross section for thermal neutrons. It is used as an abrasive, refractory, and in control rods in nuclear reactors. Formula: B4C
  • bounce around — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
  • bouncy castle — A bouncy castle is a large object filled with air, often in the shape of a castle, which children play on at a fairground or other outdoor event.
  • boycott apple — (legal)   Some time before 1989, Apple Computer, Inc. started a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, claiming they had breeched Apple's copyright on the look and feel of the Macintosh user interface. In December 1989, Xerox failed to sue Apple Computer, claiming that the software for Apple's Lisa computer and Macintosh Finder, both copyrighted in 1987, were derived from two Xerox programs: Smalltalk, developed in the mid-1970s and Star, copyrighted in 1981. Apple wanted to stop people from writing any program that worked even vaguely like a Macintosh. If such look and feel lawsuits succeed they could put an end to free software that could substitute for commercial software. In the weeks after the suit was filed, Usenet reverberated with condemnation for Apple. GNU supporters Richard Stallman, John Gilmore and Paul Rubin decided to take action against Apple. Apple's reputation as a force for progress came from having made better computers; but The League for Programming Freedom believed that Apple wanted to make all non-Apple computers worse. They therefore campaigned to discourage people from using Apple products or working for Apple or any other company threatening similar obstructionist tactics (e.g. Lotus and Xerox). Because of this boycott the Free Software Foundation for a long time didn't support Macintosh Unix in their software. In 1995, the LPF and the FSF decided to end the boycott.
  • boynton beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
  • bracket clock — a small clock designed to be placed on a bracket or shelf.
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