13-letter words containing i, n, o
- bazillionaire — (humorous) An incredibly rich person.
- be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
- be nothing to — not to concern or be significant to (someone)
- be one's life — If you say that something or someone is your life, you are emphasizing that they are extremely important to you.
- be witness to — If you are witness to something, you see it happen.
- beaking joint — a straight joint made by several members, as strips of flooring, ending at the same line.
- bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
- beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
- beef bouillon — a broth made either by straining water in which bits of lean beef have been cooked or by dissolving beef extract in hot water.
- beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
- belgian congo — former Belgian colony (1908-60) in central Africa: now the country of Democratic Republic of the Congo
- bellefontaine — a city in W Ohio.
- belongingness — the human state of being an essential part of something
- benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
- benito juarez — Benito (Pablo) [be-nee-taw pah-vlaw] /bɛˈni tɔ ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1806–72, president of Mexico 1857–72.
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
- bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
- bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
- bernoulli box — (storage) A high capacity storage device, Iomega Corporation's first popular product, that spins a mylar disk over a read-write head using the Bernoulli principle.
- beta function — a function of two variables, usually expressed as an improper integral and equal to the quotient of the product of the values of the gamma function at each variable divided by the value of the gamma function at the sum of the variables.
- beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
- beta-blocking — acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
- beyond belief — You use beyond belief to emphasize that something is true to a very great degree or that it happened to a very great degree.
- bibliogenesis — the art of producing and publishing books.
- biconditional — (of a proposition) asserting that the existence or occurrence of one thing or event depends on, and is dependent on, the existence or occurrence of another, as “A if and only if B.”.
- bicontinental — of, on, or involving two continents: a bicontinental survey.
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- big brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
- big-cone pine — Coulter pine.
- bighorn-river — a river flowing from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in S Montana. 336 miles (540 km) long.
- bignoniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bignoniaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including jacaranda, bignonia, and catalpa
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
- bill of entry — a list of goods received at a customs house for export or import
- binary weapon — a chemical weapon consisting of a projectile containing two substances separately that mix to produce a lethal agent when the projectile is fired
- 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
- bioequivalent — the condition in which different formulations of the same drug or chemical are equally absorbed when taken into the body.
- biogeneticist — genetic engineering.
- biomechanical — relating to biomechanics
- biotechnology — Biotechnology is the use of living parts such as cells or bacteria in industry and technology.
- bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
- birth control — Birth control means planning whether to have children, and using contraception to prevent having them when they are not wanted.
- birthing pool — a large bath in which a woman can give birth
- birthing room — a section of a hospital or an outpatient facility set aside and equipped for childbirth and usually simulating a home environment in which family members or friends may be present during the delivery.
- bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
- bishop's ring — a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.