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13-letter words containing o, r, a, t, e

  • bass trombone — the lower-pitched of the two main types of trombone
  • bass-baritone — a singer or voice in the bass range with baritone qualities
  • bat-eared fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
  • batch-process — to perform batch processing on (files)
  • baton twirler — someone who twirls a baton, esp a drum major or majorette
  • batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • beast of prey — any animal that hunts other animals for food
  • beauty editor — the person in charge of a section of newspaper or magazine devoted to cosmetics, etc
  • beauty parlor — A beauty parlor is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example, to have their hair, nails, or makeup done.
  • behavioristic — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • beige toaster — Macintosh
  • benito juarez — Benito (Pablo) [be-nee-taw pah-vlaw] /bɛˈni tɔ ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1806–72, president of Mexico 1857–72.
  • benton harbor — a city in SW Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
  • bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
  • beta carotene — a yellowish form of carotene: a dietary deficiency of this is associated with a greater risk of certain cancers
  • beta receptor — a receptor, found on the surface of some cells of the sympathetic nervous system, that is stimulated by certain adrenergic substances: such stimulation results in certain physiological responses, such as acceleration of the action of the heart and dilatation of the arteries supplying heart and skeletal muscles
  • beta-carotene — the most abundant of various isomers of carotene, C 40 H 56 , that can be converted by the body to vitamin A.
  • beta-receptor — a site on a cell, as of the heart, that, upon interaction with epinephrine or norepinephrine, controls heartbeat and heart contractability, vasodilation, smooth muscle inhibition, and other physiological processes.
  • bibliothecary — a librarian
  • bibliotherapy — the use of reading as therapy
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • bioelectrical — relating to electrical current generated by biological activity
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • bitter orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
  • 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
  • blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
  • bomber jacket — A bomber jacket is a short jacket which is gathered into a band at the waist or hips.
  • booby-trapped — (of a building, vehicle, etc) planted with a booby trap
  • boom operator — a person who operates a boom
  • booster cable — either of a pair of electric cables having clamps at each end and used for starting the engine of a vehicle whose battery is dead.
  • bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
  • border patrol — a government agency in charge of preventing terrorists, weapons, and illegal immigrants entering the country
  • border states — slave states bordering on the free states before the Civil War: Mo., Ky., Va., Md., & Del.
  • borlotti bean — variety of kidney bean
  • bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
  • bottled water — water sold in bottles
  • bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
  • bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
  • brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
  • bracket clock — a small clock designed to be placed on a bracket or shelf.
  • brazen it out — to act in a bold way as if one need not be ashamed
  • break it down — stop it
  • break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
  • breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
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