13-letter words containing o, n, e, y
- 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 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-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.
- 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 snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- 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).
- 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.
- bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- 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 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.
- 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.
- cariogenicity — conducive to the production or promotion of dental caries: the cariogenic factors in sweets.
- caryophyllene — (organic compound) A sesquiterpene (containing a cyclobutane ring) found in the essential oils of several plants such as clove and pepper.
- caution money — a sum of money deposited as security for good conduct, against possible debts, etc
- centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
- ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
- cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
- cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
- chemotaxonomy — the taxonomy of species of organisms based on biochemical characteristics
- chinese money — funny money (def 3).
- chloromycetin — chloramphenicol
- chloroxylenol — (chemistry) A compound with the chemical formula C8H9ClO, commonly used in antibacterial soaps and toxic to fish.
- chronotherapy — an endeavour to readjust the body clock to enable a person to waken earlier by going to sleep later and later every day until the required waking hour is achieved
- chrysophenine — a bright yellow dye derived from stilbene, used chiefly for dyeing leather and textiles.
- cinco de mayo — May 5, anniversary of the victory of Mexico over French forces at Puebla in 1862: observed by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
- claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
- clinopyroxene — a member of the pyroxene group of minerals having a monoclinic crystal structure, such as augite, diopside, or jadeite
- clonogenicity — (uncountable) The ability of a cell to form clones.
- close company — a company under the control of its directors or fewer than five independent participants
- close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
- co-dependency — a state of mutual dependence between two people, esp when one partner relies emotionally on supporting and caring for the other partner