13-letter words containing l, o, n, r
- 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
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
- 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
- bloodcurdling — terrifying; horrifying
- blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
- bodily injury — The bodily injury section of a liability insurance policy usually covers hospital bills for the injured parties as well as related expenses such as rehabilitation, medicines, and lost income.
- boiled dinner — a meal of meat and vegetables, as of corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes, prepared by boiling.
- boiling range — A boiling range is the temperature range involved in the distillation of oil, from the start to the time when it evaporates.
- bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
- book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
- book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
- booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
- borlotti bean — variety of kidney bean
- bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
- bottle-opener — A bottle-opener is a metal device for removing caps or tops from bottles.
- boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
- 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).
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- brand loyalty — the tendency of consumers to continue buying a particular brand instead of trying a different one
- brazing alloy — a solder fusing at temperatures above 1200°F (650°C).
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
- bronchiolitis — a condition in which the small airways in the lungs become inflamed by a virus. It is most common in infants, who become breathless in severe cases. Recurrent attacks may lead to asthma
- bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
- brooklyn park — city in SE Minn.: suburb of Minneapolis: pop. 67,000
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- brutalization — to make brutal.
- 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.
- burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
- burrowing owl — a ground owl (Athene cunicularia) of the prairie regions of North and South America having long legs and a small head: it makes its nest in abandoned burrows
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
- campaniliform — Alternative form of campaniform.
- canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
- candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
- canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
- car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
- carbonylation — the introduction of a carbonyl group into a compound through chemical reaction
- carboxylation — a chemical reaction that introduces a carboxyl group into a molecule or compound, forming a carboxylic acid or a carboxylate
- carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
- card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.