13-letter words containing o, t, e
- bitter orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- bl lac object — an extremely compact violently variable form of active galaxy
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- blonde moment — a brief mental lapse, as of judgment or memory: I must be having a blonde moment.
- blood blister — a blister filled with blood
- blood brother — A man's blood brother is a man he has sworn to treat as a brother, often in a ceremony which involves mixing a small amount of their blood.
- blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- blow a gasket — to burst out in anger
- blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
- blue asbestos — a common name for the mineral crocidolite, a variety of asbestos found in Africa and Australia
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- boat neckline — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
- body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
- body-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points at the centers of the unit cells.
- 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.
- boite de nuit — boîte.
- bomber jacket — A bomber jacket is a short jacket which is gathered into a band at the waist or hips.
- bonanza state — a name for the state of Montana
- bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
- bonnet monkey — an Indian macaque, Macaca radiata, with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
- bonus eventus — the ancient Roman god of agricultural prosperity.
- booby-trapped — (of a building, vehicle, etc) planted with a booby trap
- booking agent — an agent who makes bookings, as reservations for travel or the theater or engagements for performers, for clients.
- 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
- boron nitride — a white inert crystalline solid existing both in a graphite-like form and in an extremely hard diamond-like form (borazon). It is used as a refractory, high-temperature lubricant and insulator, and heat shield. Formula: BN
- borrowed time — an uncertain, usually limited period of time extending beyond or postponing the occurrence of something inevitable.
- 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 blonde — a woman with dyed blonde hair
- bottle-opener — A bottle-opener is a metal device for removing caps or tops from bottles.
- bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
- bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
- bottled water — water sold in bottles
- bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
- bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
- bottom feeder — a fish that feeds on material at the bottom of a river, lake, sea, etc
- bottom-unique — In domain theory, a function f is bottom-unique if f x = bottom <=> x = bottom A bottom-unique function is also strict.
- 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.