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13-letter words containing o, n, e, u

  • 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).
  • 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
  • bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
  • bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
  • bourguignonne — Burgundy (def 5).
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
  • brazen it out — to act in a bold way as if one need not be ashamed
  • bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
  • brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
  • bubble column — A bubble column is a reactor in which a gas bubbles up through a liquid or slurry.
  • bûche de noël — a French Christmas cake made from a thin layer of spongecake that is rolled up and frosted so as to resemble a decorative Yule log
  • buenas noches — good night
  • bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
  • 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.
  • bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
  • bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
  • bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
  • 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.
  • buprenorphine — an opiate used medicinally as a powerful analgesic
  • busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
  • businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
  • buttoned-down — conventional or conservative
  • butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
  • by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
  • calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • capaciousness — capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • carillonneurs — Plural form of carillonneur.
  • cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
  • cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • cause offence — If you cause offence or give offence to someone, you say or do something rude which upsets or embarrasses them.
  • cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
  • cauterization — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
  • caution money — a sum of money deposited as security for good conduct, against possible debts, etc
  • cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
  • center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
  • centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
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