13-letter words containing o, u, b
- barosinusitis — aerosinusitis.
- baryon number — the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
- battle it out — If one group or person battles it out with another, they take part in a fight or contest against each other until one of them wins or a definite result is reached. You can also say that two groups or two people battle it out.
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- be nuts about — to be greatly in love with
- be wild about — If you are wild about someone or something, you like them very much.
- beacon status — a ranking awarded by the government to an organization, rendering it eligible for extra funding, and aimed at encouraging organizations to share good practice with each other
- beauteousness — The state or quality of being beauteous.
- 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.
- bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
- beef bouillon — a broth made either by straining water in which bits of lean beef have been cooked or by dissolving beef extract in hot water.
- beehive house — a prehistoric circular building found in various parts of Europe, usually of stone and having a dome-shaped roof
- beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
- behaviourally — from a behavioural point of view
- benito juarez — Benito (Pablo) [be-nee-taw pah-vlaw] /bɛˈni tɔ ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1806–72, president of Mexico 1857–72.
- benzoyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 5 O–, derived from benzoic acid.
- bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
- bernoulli box — (storage) A high capacity storage device, Iomega Corporation's first popular product, that spins a mylar disk over a read-write head using the Bernoulli principle.
- beta function — a function of two variables, usually expressed as an improper integral and equal to the quotient of the product of the values of the gamma function at each variable divided by the value of the gamma function at the sum of the variables.
- beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
- beyond number — too numerous to be counted
- bibliolatrous — characterized by bibliolatry
- bignoniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bignoniaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including jacaranda, bignonia, and catalpa
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
- bio-autograph — an analytical technique in which organic compounds are separated by chromatography and identified by studying their effects on microorganisms.
- bioaccumulate — (of substances, esp toxins) to build up within the tissues of organisms
- bioautography — an analytical technique in which organic compounds are separated by chromatography and identified by studying their effects on microorganisms.
- bioequivalent — the condition in which different formulations of the same drug or chemical are equally absorbed when taken into the body.
- bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
- bite your lip — If you bite your lip, you try very hard not to show the anger or distress that you are feeling.
- black buffalo — a buffalofish, Ictiobus niger, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainage systems south to Mexico.
- black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
- blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
- bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
- blood glucose — Blood glucose is glucose (= a type of sugar) in the bloodstream.
- blood product — a pharmaceutical product made from blood, such as Factor VIII
- blood pudding — Blood pudding is another word for black pudding.
- blood sausage — a kind of black sausage made from minced pork fat, pig's blood, and other ingredients
- bloodcurdling — terrifying; horrifying
- bloody sunday — (in Northern Ireland) 30th January 1972, when British soldiers shot dead thirteen marchers in Londonderry who were protesting against the UK government's policy of internment
- blow moulding — a process for moulding single-piece plastic objects in which a thermoplastic is extruded into a split mould and blown against its sides
- blue asbestos — a common name for the mineral crocidolite, a variety of asbestos found in Africa and Australia
- blue copperas — a salt, copper sulfate, CuSO 4 ⋅5H 2 O, occurring naturally as large transparent, deep-blue triclinic crystals, appearing in its anhydrous state as a white powder: used chiefly as a mordant, insecticide, fungicide, and in engraving.
- blue grosbeak — a grosbeak, Guiraca caerulea, of the U.S., Mexico, and Central America, the male of which is blue with two rusty bars on each wing.
- blue rockfish — a bluish-black rockfish, Sebastodes mystinus, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters of North America.
- blue-eyed boy — Someone's blue-eyed boy is a young man who they like better than anyone else and who therefore receives better treatment than other people.
- board measure — a system of units for measuring wood based on the board foot. 1980 board feet equal one standard
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests