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13-letter words containing i, n, o, e, s, b

  • cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
  • chinese block — a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block played with a drumstick
  • chinese boxes — a nest of boxes, each of which fits into the next larger box
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • combativeness — The state of being combative.
  • concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
  • confiscatable — confiscable
  • constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
  • constrainable — able to be constrained
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • core business — the business activity that is main source of a company's profits and success, usually the activity that the company was originally set up to carry out
  • cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
  • crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
  • cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
  • deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
  • desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
  • desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
  • disembodiment — to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
  • disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
  • disobligement — disobligation
  • division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
  • double vision — diplopia.
  • ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
  • endosymbiosis — Symbiosis in which one of the symbiotic organisms lives inside the other.
  • endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
  • ethnobotanist — A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany.
  • exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
  • exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
  • exhibitionism — Extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself.
  • exhibitionist — A person who behaves in an extravagant way in order to attract attention.
  • festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
  • foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
  • forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
  • hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
  • hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • immovableness — The quality of being immovable.
  • immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • in one's book — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
  • in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
  • inbounds line — one of two broken lines, parallel to the sidelines and running the length of the field, to which the ball is brought when it goes beyond the sidelines.
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