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13-letter words containing n, y, o

  • 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 number — too numerous to be counted
  • 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.
  • bill of entry — a list of goods received at a customs house for export or import
  • binary weapon — a chemical weapon consisting of a projectile containing two substances separately that mix to produce a lethal agent when the projectile is fired
  • biotechnology — Biotechnology is the use of living parts such as cells or bacteria in industry and technology.
  • bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
  • black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
  • black economy — The black economy consists of the buying, selling, and producing of goods or services that goes on without the government being informed, so that people can avoid paying tax on them.
  • 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
  • bloody sunday — (in Northern Ireland) 30th January 1972, when British soldiers shot dead thirteen marchers in Londonderry who were protesting against the UK government's policy of internment
  • bloody-minded — If you say that someone is being bloody-minded, you are showing that you disapprove of their behaviour because you think they are being deliberately difficult instead of being helpful.
  • blot analysis — a technique for analysing biological molecules, such as proteins (Western blot analysis), DNA (Southern blot analysis), and RNA (Northern blot analysis), involving their separation by gel electrophoresis, transfer to a nitrocellulose sheet, and subsequent analysis by autoradiography
  • 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.
  • body and soul — You use body and soul to mean every part of you, including your mind and your emotions.
  • body building — the act or practice of exercising, lifting weights, etc., so as to develop the muscles of the body.
  • body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
  • body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • body stocking — A body stocking is a piece of clothing that covers the whole of someone's body and fits tightly. Body stockings are often worn by dancers.
  • body-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points at the centers of the unit cells.
  • bonnet monkey — an Indian macaque, Macaca radiata, with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
  • boron hydride — borane.
  • 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
  • boundary peak — a peak in SW Nevada, in the White Mountains, near the California border: highest elevation in Nevada. 13,143 feet (4006 meters).
  • boundary scan — The use of scan registers to capture state from device input and output pins. IEEE Standard 1149.1-1990 describes the international standard implementation (sometimes called JTAG after the Joint Test Action Group which began the standardisation work).
  • bounty hunter — A bounty hunter is someone who tries to find or kill someone in order to get the reward that has been offered.
  • bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
  • bowling alley — A bowling alley is a building which contains several tracks for bowling.
  • boynton beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • brand loyalty — the tendency of consumers to continue buying a particular brand instead of trying a different one
  • brass foundry — a foundry that makes things from brass
  • brazing alloy — a solder fusing at temperatures above 1200°F (650°C).
  • brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
  • bronchography — radiography of the bronchial tubes after the introduction of a radiopaque medium into the bronchi
  • brooklyn park — city in SE Minn.: suburb of Minneapolis: pop. 67,000
  • brown hickory — a North American hickory tree, Carya glabra
  • bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
  • buoyancy tank — an enclosed air-filled section of a boat, ship or hovercraft designed to keep it afloat and prevent it from sinking
  • buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
  • butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
  • by a long way — You can use by a long way to emphasize that something is, for example, much better, worse, or bigger than any other thing of that kind.
  • by contraries — contrary to what is expected
  • by definition — If you say that something has a particular quality by definition, you mean that it has this quality simply because of what it is.
  • by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
  • cacophonously — In a cacophonous manner.
  • café coronary — a fatal choking condition brought on when food, dentures, etc. lodge in a person's throat while he or she is eating: it is often misinterpreted as a heart attack
  • canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
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