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13-letter words containing e, b, s

  • bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
  • beehive house — a prehistoric circular building found in various parts of Europe, usually of stone and having a dome-shaped roof
  • beehive state — Utah (used as a nickname).
  • beer-swilling — in the habit of drinking a lot of beer
  • beggar's-lice — any of several plants, esp the stickseed, having small prickly fruits that adhere to clothing, fur, etc
  • beginningless — having no beginning
  • 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.
  • beige toaster — Macintosh
  • belief system — The belief system of a person or society is the set of beliefs that they have about what is right and wrong and what is true and false.
  • 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.
  • belongingness — the human state of being an essential part of something
  • bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
  • beneficiary's — a person or group that receives benefits, profits, or advantages.
  • benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
  • benjamin west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
  • benjamin-bush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • bergen-belsen — Belsen.
  • bering strait — a strait between Alaska and Russia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean
  • berkeleianism — the philosophical system of George Berkeley, holding that objects exist only when perceived, that God's perception sustains the universe, and that there is no independent substratum or substance in which these perceptions inhere
  • bermuda grass — a widely distributed grass, Cynodon dactylon, with wiry creeping rootstocks and several purplish spikes of flowers arising from a single point: used for lawns, pasturage, binding sand dunes, etc
  • beseemingness — a quality or state that is beseeming
  • 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.
  • best practice — Best practice is the way of running a business or providing a service that is recognized as correct or most effective.
  • bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
  • 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.
  • between times — at intervals, as between other events or actions
  • betweenwhiles — betweentimes.
  • beverly hills — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles: famous as the home of film stars. Pop: 34 941 (2003 est)
  • bewick's swan — a white Old World swan, Cygnus bewickii, having a black bill with a small yellow base
  • bias-ply tire — a vehicle tire in which the main plies or cords run across the bead.
  • biased sample — a statistical sample in which the items selected share some property which influences their distribution
  • bible society — a Christian organization devoted to the printing and distribution of the Bible.
  • bibliogenesis — the art of producing and publishing books.
  • bicentennials — pertaining to or in honor of a 200th anniversary: bicentennial celebration; a bicentennial exposition.
  • bielsko-biala — a city in S Poland.
  • bielsko-biała — a town in S Poland: created in 1951 by the union of Bielsko and Biała Krakowska; a leading textile centre since the 16th century. Pop: 356 000 (2005 est)
  • bignoniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bignoniaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including jacaranda, bignonia, and catalpa
  • bikini briefs — a pair of men's or women's underpants that barely cover the groin area
  • bimetallistic — relating to bimetallism
  • binary search — (algorithm)   A search algorithm which repeatedly divides an ordered search space in half according to how the required (key) value compares with the middle element. The following pseudo-C routine performs a binary search return the index of the element of vector "thing[first..last]" equal to "target": if (target < thing[first] || target > thing[last]) return NOT_FOUND; while (first < last) { mid = (first+last)/2; /* truncate to integer */ if (target == thing[mid]) return mid; if (target < thing[mid]) last = mid-1; else first = mid+1; } if (target == thing[last]) return last; return NOT_FOUND; (2003-01-14)
  • binary system — a system involving only two elements, as 0 and 1 or yes and no.
  • binding screw — a screw used to secure one thing to another
  • bio-terrorism — the use of living organisms and their toxic products to kill or incapacitate, esp as a political weapon
  • 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
  • bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
  • biogeneticist — genetic engineering.
  • biospeleology — the study of organisms that live in caves.
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