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13-letter words containing l, o, b, e

  • bottle blonde — a woman with dyed blonde hair
  • bottle-opener — A bottle-opener is a metal device for removing caps or tops from bottles.
  • bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
  • bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
  • bottled water — water sold in bottles
  • bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
  • bougainvillea — Bougainvillea is a climbing plant that has thin, red or purple flowers and grows mainly in hot countries.
  • bouillabaisse — Bouillabaisse is a rich stew or soup of fish and vegetables.
  • bouillon cube — A bouillon cube is a solid cube made from dried meat or vegetable juices and other flavorings. Bouillon cubes are used to add flavor to dishes such as stews and soups.
  • 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.
  • boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
  • bow collector — a sliding current collector, consisting of a bow-shaped strip mounted on a hinged framework, used on trains, etc, to collect current from an overhead-wire
  • bowling alley — A bowling alley is a building which contains several tracks for bowling.
  • bowling green — A bowling green is an area of very smooth, short grass on which the game of bowls or lawn bowling is played.
  • bowling-green — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
  • box jellyfish — any of various highly venomous jellyfishes of the order Cubomedusae, esp Chironex fleckeri, of Australian tropical waters, having a cuboidal body with tentacles hanging from each of the lower corners
  • boycott apple — (legal)   Some time before 1989, Apple Computer, Inc. started a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, claiming they had breeched Apple's copyright on the look and feel of the Macintosh user interface. In December 1989, Xerox failed to sue Apple Computer, claiming that the software for Apple's Lisa computer and Macintosh Finder, both copyrighted in 1987, were derived from two Xerox programs: Smalltalk, developed in the mid-1970s and Star, copyrighted in 1981. Apple wanted to stop people from writing any program that worked even vaguely like a Macintosh. If such look and feel lawsuits succeed they could put an end to free software that could substitute for commercial software. In the weeks after the suit was filed, Usenet reverberated with condemnation for Apple. GNU supporters Richard Stallman, John Gilmore and Paul Rubin decided to take action against Apple. Apple's reputation as a force for progress came from having made better computers; but The League for Programming Freedom believed that Apple wanted to make all non-Apple computers worse. They therefore campaigned to discourage people from using Apple products or working for Apple or any other company threatening similar obstructionist tactics (e.g. Lotus and Xerox). Because of this boycott the Free Software Foundation for a long time didn't support Macintosh Unix in their software. In 1995, the LPF and the FSF decided to end the boycott.
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • bracket clock — a small clock designed to be placed on a bracket or shelf.
  • breech-loader — a firearm that is loaded at the breech
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
  • brewer's mole — hairy-tailed mole.
  • bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
  • bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
  • broadly based — Something that is broadly based involves many different kinds of things or people.
  • broccoli rabe — a plant, Brassica rapa ruvo, of which the slightly bitter, dark-green leaves and clustered flower buds are eaten as a vegetable.
  • broiler house — a building in which broiler chickens are reared in confined conditions
  • bromo-seltzer — a compound containing a bromide, sodium bicarbonate, etc., used for relief from headaches and upset stomachs, and as a sedative
  • bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
  • brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
  • brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
  • bubble column — A bubble column is a reactor in which a gas bubbles up through a liquid or slurry.
  • bubble memory — a method of storing high volumes of data by the use of minute pockets of magnetism (bubbles) in a semiconducting material. The bubbles may be caused to migrate past a read head or to a buffer area for storage
  • bûche de noël — a French Christmas cake made from a thin layer of spongecake that is rolled up and frosted so as to resemble a decorative Yule log
  • bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
  • buffalo berry — a shrub (genus Shepherdia) of the oleaster family, native to W North America, with silvery leaves
  • buffalo grove — a city in NE Illinois.
  • bulbourethral — of or relating to the rounded mass of tissue surrounding the urethra at the root of the penis.
  • bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
  • busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
  • buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
  • butcher block — designating or of a thick slab made by gluing together strips of hardwood, as maple or oak, used for counter and table tops, etc.
  • butter cooler — an earthenware container, consisting of a dish and cover, used to keep butter cool
  • by yourselves — if you are by yourselves, or all by yourselves, you are alone
  • by-your-leave — a request for permission (esp in the phrase without so much as a by-your-leave)
  • byte compiler — byte-code compiler
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