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13-letter words containing c, o, r

  • 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-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.
  • bibliographic — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
  • bibliothecary — a librarian
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
  • bioconversion — the use of biological processes or materials to change organic substances into a new form, such as the conversion of waste into methane by fermentation
  • bioelectrical — relating to electrical current generated by biological activity
  • bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
  • 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 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.
  • black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
  • black hickory — a species of smooth-barked hickory, Carya tomentosa, with fragrant foliage that turns bright yellow in autumn
  • 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
  • blood product — a pharmaceutical product made from blood, such as Factor VIII
  • bloodcurdling — terrifying; horrifying
  • 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.
  • blue rockfish — a bluish-black rockfish, Sebastodes mystinus, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters of North America.
  • boarding card — A boarding card is a card which a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
  • bodice ripper — You can refer to a film or novel which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes as a bodice ripper, especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
  • bodice-ripper — a modern Gothic novel or historical romance, usually in paperback format, featuring at least one passionate love scene, characteristically one in which the heroine vainly resists submitting to the villain or hero.
  • body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • body-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points at the centers of the unit cells.
  • 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.
  • bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
  • book scorpion — any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions), esp Chelifer cancroides, which are sometimes found in old books, etc
  • booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
  • 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
  • border collie — a medium-sized breed of collie with a silky usually black-and-white coat: used mainly as sheepdogs
  • border police — the force in charge of policing a border
  • boroglyceride — any compound containing boric acid and glycerol, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • 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
  • bosch process — an industrial process for manufacturing hydrogen by the catalytic reduction of steam with carbon monoxide
  • boston rocker — a type of 19th-cent. American rocking chair, having a curved wooden seat and a high back formed of spindles held in place by a broad headpiece
  • botryomycosis — a disease, usually of horses, caused by a bacterial infection (usually, Staphylococcus aureus) producing tumorous growths esp. after castration or a wound or injury
  • bounce around — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • boundary scan — The use of scan registers to capture state from device input and output pins. IEEE Standard 1149.1-1990 describes the international standard implementation (sometimes called JTAG after the Joint Test Action Group which began the standardisation work).
  • bow collector — a sliding current collector, consisting of a bow-shaped strip mounted on a hinged framework, used on trains, etc, to collect current from an overhead-wire
  • box stretcher — a heavy rectangular stretcher connecting successive legs of a table, chair, etc.
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
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