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13-letter words containing o, n, s, i

  • astonishingly — causing astonishment or surprise; amazing: an astonishing victory; an astonishing remark.
  • astonishments — Plural form of astonishment.
  • astrodynamics — the study of the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space
  • astronautical — of or relating to astronautics or astronauts.
  • at a discount — below the regular price
  • at this point — at this moment in time
  • aten asteroid — one of a small group of asteroids whose orbits cross that of the earth and whose semimajor axes are smaller than that of the earth.
  • athenagoras i — (Aristocles Spyrou) 1886–1972, Archbishop Ecumenical of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church 1948–72.
  • atherogenesis — (medicine) The formation of atheromas, especially on the walls of the arteries.
  • atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
  • auction house — a commercial company that specializes in selling items at auction
  • audaciousness — Risky or daring behaviour.
  • augmentations — Plural form of augmentation.
  • aum shinrikyo — a syncretistic Japanese cult combining elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, founded by Shoko Asahara in 1986; responsible for a number of murders and in particular a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995
  • austin dobson — (Henry) Austin, 1840–1921, English poet, biographer, and essayist.
  • authorisation — Alternative spelling of authorization.
  • autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
  • automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
  • back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
  • backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
  • bail bondsman — an individual or firm that lends bail money to defendants awaiting trial
  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
  • bank discount — interest on a loan deducted from the principal amount when the loan is made and based on the loan's face value
  • bank of issue — a bank, as a Federal Reserve Bank, empowered by a government to issue currency.
  • banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
  • banking house — a more formal term for a bank
  • barosinusitis — aerosinusitis.
  • bartholinitis — Inflammation of Bartholin's cyst.
  • baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
  • basic fortran — (language)   A subset of Fortran.
  • bass-baritone — a singer or voice in the bass range with baritone qualities
  • be one's life — If you say that something or someone is your life, you are emphasizing that they are extremely important to you.
  • be witness to — If you are witness to something, you see it happen.
  • bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
  • belongingness — the human state of being an essential part of something
  • bibliogenesis — the art of producing and publishing books.
  • bignoniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bignoniaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including jacaranda, bignonia, and catalpa
  • bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
  • 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.
  • bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
  • bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
  • bishop's ring — a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.
  • 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.
  • bits and bobs — Bits and bobs are small objects or parts of something.
  • 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.
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