13-letter words containing i, b, e
- ambitiousness — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- ambroise pare — Ambroise [ahn-brwaz] /ɑ̃ˈbrwaz/ (Show IPA), 1510–90, French surgeon.
- american bond — a brickwork bond having a course of headers between five or six courses of stretchers.
- aminobenzoate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of aminobenzoic acid.
- amphibologies — Plural form of amphibology.
- amphisbaenian — any of a legless, burrowing suborder (Amphisbaenia) of tropical reptiles (order Squamata) with a head and tail that look very much alike
- anaerobically — (of an organism or tissue) living in the absence of air or free oxygen.
- analphabetism — the inability to read and write, illiteracy
- aniline black — the black dye obtained by the oxidation of aniline hydrochloride, used for dyeing textiles, especially cotton.
- anno hebraico — A.H.
- answerability — liable to be asked to give account; responsible: He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions.
- antibacterial — effective against bacteria
- anticipatable — capable of being anticipated
- antimetabolic — inhibiting metabolism
- antiobscenity — opposed to or working to combat obscenity
- antisubmarine — (of weapons, missiles, etc) designed to combat or destroy submarines
- appealability — an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea.
- apple-pie bed — a way of making a bed so as to prevent the person from entering it
- apportionable — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
- appreciatable — (chiefly,esthetics) That can be appreciated or enjoyed.
- apprehensible — capable of being comprehended or grasped mentally
- apprehensibly — In an apprehensive manner; cautiously.
- arab-american — a citizen or resident of the U.S. of Arab birth or descent.
- arabian camel — a domesticated camel, Camelus dromedarius, having one hump on its back and used as a beast of burden in the hot deserts of N Africa and SW Asia
- arabian horse — one of a breed of horses, raised originally in Arabia and adjacent countries, noted for intelligence, grace, and speed.
- arabian senna — a tropical leguminous plant, Cassia angustifolia, having yellow flowers and long pods
- arachnephobia — Misspelling of arachnophobia.
- arbitrariness — subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion: an arbitrary decision.
- arboriculture — the cultivation of trees or shrubs, esp for the production of timber
- archebacteria — Plural form of archebacterium.
- archie bunker — a poorly educated blue-collar worker, holding ultraconservative, racist, and male-chauvinist opinions.
- ascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- ascertainably — In a way that can be ascertained.
- assembly line — An assembly line is an arrangement of workers and machines in a factory, where each worker deals with only one part of a product. The product passes from one worker to another until it is finished.
- assembly time — the time required for a computer to translate symbolic computer language into machine-language instructions.
- assertability — The quality of being assertable.
- asses' bridge — pons asinorum
- assessability — The quality of being assessable.
- asteroid belt — the concentrations of asteroids that move around the sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- atomic number — the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of an element
- attributively — pertaining to or having the character of attribution or an attribute.
- aubervilliers — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 63 136 (1999)
- 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
- back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
- back-breaking — Back-breaking work involves a lot of hard physical effort.