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13-letter words containing n, b

  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
  • bay of gdańsk — a wide inlet of the Baltic Sea on the N coast of Poland
  • bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
  • bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
  • bazillionaire — (humorous) An incredibly rich person.
  • bbn butterfly — (computer)   A supercomputer developed at BBN Technologies, named after the "butterfly" multi-stage switching network around which it was built. It could have up to 512 CPUs connected to allow every CPU access to every other CPU's memory, albeit with about 15 times the latency than for its own. The earlier GP-1000 models used up to 256 Motorola 68020s. The later TC-2000 models used up to 512 Motorola 88100s. Language developed for, or ported to, the BBN Butterfly were Butterfly Common LISP, Butterfly Scheme, Delirium, and MultiScheme.
  • bcg (vaccine) — a vaccine prepared from an attenuated strain of the tubercle bacillus, used for immunization against tuberculosis
  • be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
  • be news to sb — If you say that something is news to you, you mean that you did not previously know what you have just been told, especially when you are surprised or annoyed about it.
  • be nothing to — not to concern or be significant to (someone)
  • be nuts about — to be greatly in love with
  • 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 spoken for — If a person or thing is spoken for or has been spoken for, someone has claimed them or asked for them, so no-one else can have them.
  • be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
  • be witness to — If you are witness to something, you see it happen.
  • 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
  • beacon status — a ranking awarded by the government to an organization, rendering it eligible for extra funding, and aimed at encouraging organizations to share good practice with each other
  • bead and reel — a convex molding having the form of elongated beads alternating with disks placed edge-on, or with spherical beads, or with both.
  • beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaking joint — a straight joint made by several members, as strips of flooring, ending at the same line.
  • beanbag chair — a chair like a large beanbag covered with vinyl, fabric, etc. and filled with foam pellets, as of polystyrene, that shift about to fit one's body
  • bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
  • bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
  • beat the band — a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
  • beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
  • beauteousness — The state or quality of being beauteous.
  • 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.
  • bed and board — sleeping accommodation and meals
  • 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).
  • bedroom scene — a scene in which lovers are in bed
  • bedtime drink — a drink before bed, often made with milk
  • 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.
  • beer-swilling — in the habit of drinking a lot of beer
  • beetlebrained — stupid
  • beginningless — having no beginning
  • beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
  • 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
  • bench warrant — a warrant issued by a judge or court directing that an offender be apprehended
  • benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
  • bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
  • bend the knee — to kneel or submit
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