13-letter words containing o, s, i, e, t
- atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
- atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
- auction house — a commercial company that specializes in selling items at auction
- audiocassette — a cassette containing audiotape
- augmentations — Plural form of augmentation.
- autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
- autoeroticism — the arousal and use of one's own body as a sexual object, as through masturbation
- automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
- autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
- autoschediaze — to do or act with little forethought or preparation
- 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
- bacteriolysis — the destruction or disintegration of bacteria
- bacterioscopy — the examination of bacteria with a microscope.
- bacteriostats — Plural form of bacteriostat.
- ballistospore — a spore, esp a fungal spore, that is forcefully ejected from its source
- base hospital — a hospital serving a large rural area
- baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
- basidiomycete — any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the spores are produced in basidia. The group includes boletes, puffballs, smuts, and rusts
- bass-baritone — a singer or voice in the bass range with baritone qualities
- be witness to — If you are witness to something, you see it happen.
- beat sb to it — If you intend to do something but someone beats you to it, they do it before you do.
- bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
- bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
- 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
- bible society — a Christian organization devoted to the printing and distribution of the Bible.
- bio-terrorism — the use of living organisms and their toxic products to kill or incapacitate, esp as a political weapon
- bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
- biogeneticist — genetic engineering.
- biosystematic — relating to biosystematics
- bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
- bishop violet — a reddish purple.
- 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.
- blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
- blood blister — a blister filled with blood
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
- brevirostrate — having a short beak or bill
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- cancellations — Plural form of cancellation.
- 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.
- cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.