13-letter words containing o, s, t, e
- 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.
- 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
- blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
- blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
- block letters — Block letters are the same as block capitals.
- blood blister — a blister filled with blood
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- blow a gasket — to burst out in anger
- blue asbestos — a common name for the mineral crocidolite, a variety of asbestos found in Africa and Australia
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- bonanza state — a name for the state of Montana
- bonus eventus — the ancient Roman god of agricultural prosperity.
- 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.
- border states — slave states bordering on the free states before the Civil War: Mo., Ky., Va., Md., & Del.
- boston rocker — a type of 19th-cent. American rocking chair, having a curved wooden seat and a high back formed of spindles held in place by a broad headpiece
- bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
- bottomset bed — fine sediment deposited at the front of a growing delta
- 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.
- boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
- box stretcher — a heavy rectangular stretcher connecting successive legs of a table, chair, etc.
- brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- breast pocket — The breast pocket of a man's coat or jacket is a pocket, usually on the inside, next to his chest.
- breast stroke — a swimming stroke performed face down in which both arms are extended outward and sideways from a position close to the chest, while the legs engage in a frog kick
- breaststroker — a person who swims breaststroke
- brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
- bretton woods — resort in the White Mountains, N.H.: site of a United Nations monetary conference (1944) at which the International Monetary Fund was established
- brevirostrate — having a short beak or bill
- bromo-seltzer — a compound containing a bromide, sodium bicarbonate, etc., used for relief from headaches and upset stomachs, and as a sedative
- bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- 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.
- bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
- buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
- butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
- buttress root — a tree root that extends above ground as a platelike outgrowth of the trunk supporting the tree. Buttress roots are mainly found in trees of tropical rain forests
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- cache storage — cache (def 3).
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- cancellations — Plural form of cancellation.
- car boot sale — A car boot sale is a sale where people sell things they own and do not want from a little stall or from the back of their car.