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13-letter words containing i, b, a

  • austin dobson — (Henry) Austin, 1840–1921, English poet, biographer, and essayist.
  • autobiography — Your autobiography is an account of your life, which you write yourself.
  • autostability — the property of being stable either as a result of inherent characteristics or of built-in devices
  • availableness — Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.
  • azerbaijanian — a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan.
  • babbitt metal — any of a number of alloys originally based on tin, antimony, and copper but now often including lead: used esp in bearings
  • baby carriage — A baby carriage is a small vehicle in which a baby can lie as it is pushed along.
  • baby primrose — a tender primrose, Primula forbesii, native to China and Burma, having white, hairy leaves and rose- or lilac-colored flowers with a yellow center.
  • bachelor girl — a young unmarried woman, esp one who is self-supporting
  • bacillophobia — The fear of microbes. Also known as germaphobia.
  • back and fill — to manoeuvre the sails by alternately filling and emptying them of wind to navigate in a narrow place
  • back clipping — a word formed by omitting the last part of the form from which it is derived.
  • back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
  • back mutation — the reversion of a mutant to the original phenotype
  • back straight — a straight part of a circuit, esp of an athletics track or a racecourse, furthest from the finishing point
  • back-breaking — Back-breaking work involves a lot of hard physical effort.
  • back-slapping — Back-slapping is noisy, cheerful behaviour which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • back-stabbing — Back-stabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
  • back-up light — a light on the rear of a motor vehicle to warn others that the vehicle is being reversed
  • backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
  • backformation — Alternative spelling of back-formation.
  • backgrounding — Present participle of background.
  • backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
  • backing light — Also called backing striplight, backing strip. Theater. a striplight providing diffused illumination for the background of a stage set.
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • backing track — a recorded instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
  • backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
  • backstitching — Present participle of backstitch.
  • backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
  • bacteriocidal — Alternative spelling of bactericidal.
  • bacteriogenic — Caused by bacteria.
  • bacteriologic — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
  • bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
  • bacteriolysis — the destruction or disintegration of bacteria
  • bacteriolytic — disintegration or dissolution of bacteria.
  • bacteriophage — a virus that is parasitic in a bacterium and multiplies within its host, which is destroyed when the new viruses are released
  • bacteriophagy — the action of a bacteriophage
  • bacterioscopy — the examination of bacteria with a microscope.
  • bacteriostats — Plural form of bacteriostat.
  • bacteriotoxin — any toxin that kills bacteria
  • bacterization — subjection to bacterial action
  • badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
  • baedeker raid — one of the German air raids in 1942 on places of cultural and historical importance in England
  • baffin island — the largest island of the Canadian Arctic, between Greenland and Hudson Bay. Area: 476 560 sq km (184 000 sq miles)
  • bag of tricks — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
  • bag-snatching — theft that involves snatching women's handbags
  • baggage claim — At an airport, the baggage claim is the area where you collect your baggage at the end of your trip.
  • baggage train — a train of wagons carrying the equipment needed by an army on the march
  • bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
  • bailey bridge — a temporary bridge made of prefabricated steel panels that can be rapidly assembled
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