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13-letter words containing l, e, n, i

  • 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.
  • atlantic time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
  • australianize — (esp of a new immigrant) to adopt or cause to adopt Australian habits and attitudes; integrate into Australian society
  • authentically — not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique.
  • automatonlike — Like an automaton; robotic.
  • availableness — Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.
  • aviation fuel — fuel used to power airplanes
  • backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
  • bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
  • balanced diet — a diet consisting of the proper quantities and proportions of foods needed to maintain health or growth.
  • balanced line — a transmission line in which the oppositely directed components are symmetrical with respect to each other and to the ground.
  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
  • banker's bill — a banknote
  • baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
  • barrel engine — an engine having cylinders arranged around and parallel to a shaft, which they rotate by means of the contact of their piston rods with a swash plate or cam on the shaft.
  • baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
  • basic english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
  • bass clarinet — a clarinet with the lowest range, in the octave below the B-flat clarinet
  • bathylimnetic — (of an organism) living in the depths of lakes and marshes
  • baton twirler — someone who twirls a baton, esp a drum major or majorette
  • bazillionaire — (humorous) An incredibly rich person.
  • be one's life — If you say that something or someone is your life, you are emphasizing that they are extremely important to you.
  • bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
  • beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
  • bedding plane — the surface separating two successive layers of stratified rock
  • bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
  • bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
  • 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.
  • beer-swilling — in the habit of drinking a lot of beer
  • beetlebrained — stupid
  • beginningless — having no beginning
  • 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.
  • belligerently — aggressively
  • belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
  • belongingness — the human state of being an essential part of something
  • benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
  • beneficential — relating to beneficence
  • bengal quince — bael.
  • benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
  • benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
  • 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
  • berkeley unix — Berkeley Software Distribution
  • 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 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
  • betweenwhiles — betweentimes.
  • bewilderingly — extremely confusing: a bewildering schedule of events.
  • 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.
  • bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
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