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

  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • beast of prey — any animal that hunts other animals for food
  • 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
  • best of breed — The best of breed is the animal that wins first prize in its section at a dog show.
  • bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
  • 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
  • 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
  • blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
  • block letters — Block letters are the same as block capitals.
  • blood blister — a blister filled with blood
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
  • carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
  • 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.
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
  • caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
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