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13-letter words containing n, o, l

  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
  • baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
  • barnacle code — (programming, humour)   Any piece of code (usually a static method) that has been appended to a class where it doesn't logically belong, due to a lack of anywhere else to put it.
  • barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
  • baroclinicity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
  • baronial hall — a large building or room owned by a baron
  • bartholinitis — Inflammation of Bartholin's cyst.
  • base on balls — walk
  • baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
  • baton twirler — someone who twirls a baton, esp a drum major or majorette
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • belongingness — the human state of being an essential part of something
  • benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
  • benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
  • benzalacetone — benzylidene acetone.
  • benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
  • benzoyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 5 O–, derived from benzoic acid.
  • 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
  • beta-naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • 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.
  • beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
  • bibliogenesis — the art of producing and publishing books.
  • biconditional — (of a proposition) asserting that the existence or occurrence of one thing or event depends on, and is dependent on, the existence or occurrence of another, as “A if and only if B.”.
  • bicontinental — of, on, or involving two continents: a bicontinental survey.
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
  • bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
  • bill of entry — a list of goods received at a customs house for export or import
  • bioequivalent — the condition in which different formulations of the same drug or chemical are equally absorbed when taken into the body.
  • biomechanical — relating to biomechanics
  • biotechnology — Biotechnology is the use of living parts such as cells or bacteria in industry and technology.
  • 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
  • bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
  • bitonal image — (graphics)   An image consisting only of a foreground colour and a background colour. Compare monochrome.
  • 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.
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