13-letter words containing o, b, e, i, s
- bielsko-biala — a city in S Poland.
- bielsko-biała — a town in S Poland: created in 1951 by the union of Bielsko and Biała Krakowska; a leading textile centre since the 16th century. Pop: 356 000 (2005 est)
- bignoniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bignoniaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including jacaranda, bignonia, and catalpa
- bio-terrorism — the use of living organisms and their toxic products to kill or incapacitate, esp as a political weapon
- bioconversion — the use of biological processes or materials to change organic substances into a new form, such as the conversion of waste into methane by fermentation
- bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
- biogeneticist — genetic engineering.
- biospeleology — the study of organisms that live in caves.
- biosystematic — relating to biosystematics
- bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
- bishop sleeve — a full sleeve gathered at the wrist
- bishop violet — a reddish purple.
- bishop's weed — goutweed.
- bishop's-weed — goutweed.
- bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
- bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
- black section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- blasco ibanez — Vicente (biˈθente). 1867–1928, Spanish novelist, whose books include Blood and Sand (1909) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916)
- blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
- bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
- blood blister — a blister filled with blood
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- blue rockfish — a bluish-black rockfish, Sebastodes mystinus, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters of North America.
- boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
- boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope
- boring sponge — any of a family (Clionidae) of sponges that settle on and dissolve the shells of clams
- borna disease — viral disease found in mammals, esp horses
- bouillabaisse — Bouillabaisse is a rich stew or soup of fish and vegetables.
- 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
- boys' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for boys, founded in 1883, with the aim of promoting discipline and self-respect
- brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
- brassicaceous — belonging to the plant family Brassicaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Cruciferae.
- brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
- brevirostrate — having a short beak or bill
- bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
- broiler house — a building in which broiler chickens are reared in confined conditions
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord