13-letter words containing l, e, s, n
- banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
- banker's bill — a banknote
- base on balls — walk
- baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
- basement flat — a flat below the ground floor of a building
- 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
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
- be one's life — If you say that something or someone is your life, you are emphasizing that they are extremely important to you.
- beacon school — a notably successful school whose methods and practices are brought to the attention of the education service as a whole in order that they may be adopted by other schools
- beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- 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.
- beer-swilling — in the habit of drinking a lot of beer
- beginningless — having no beginning
- belongingness — the human state of being an essential part of something
- bergen-belsen — Belsen.
- 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
- betweenwhiles — betweentimes.
- bibliogenesis — the art of producing and publishing books.
- bicentennials — pertaining to or in honor of a 200th anniversary: bicentennial celebration; a bicentennial exposition.
- bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
- black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
- black section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
- bladder senna — a Eurasian leguminous plant, Colutea arborescens, with yellow and red flowers and membranous inflated pods
- blameableness — the quality of being blameable
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- blanchisseuse — a washer-woman
- blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
- blanket chest — a chest, with or without drawers, having a rectangular space under a lifting lid or top, used for storing blankets, bedding, or clothing.
- blanket sheet — a newspaper of larger than average size, common in the mid 19th century.
- blarney stone — a stone in Blarney Castle, in the SW Republic of Ireland, said to endow whoever kisses it with the gift of the gab and skill in flattery
- blasco ibanez — Vicente (biˈθente). 1867–1928, Spanish novelist, whose books include Blood and Sand (1909) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916)
- blast furnace — A blast furnace is a large structure in which iron ore is heated under pressure so that it melts and the pure iron metal separates out and can be collected.
- blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
- blessed event — the birth of a child; also, a newborn child
- blinkenlights — /blink'*n-li:tz/ Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, especially a dinosaur. Derives from the last word of the famous blackletter-Gothic sign in mangled pseudo-German that once graced about half the computer rooms in the English-speaking world. One version ran in its entirety as follows: In an amusing example of turnabout-is-fair-play, German hackers have developed their own versions of the blinkenlights poster in fractured English, one of which is reproduced here: ATTENTION This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights. See also geef.
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- bouncy castle — A bouncy castle is a large object filled with air, often in the shape of a castle, which children play on at a fairground or other outdoor event.
- breakableness — the quality of being breakable
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
- bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
- bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
- burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- business plan — A business plan is a detailed plan for setting up or developing a business, especially one that is written in order to borrow money.