13-letter words containing o, u, t, e, r
- averruncation — the act of averting or turning away
- barcoo salute — a movement of the hand to brush flies away from the face
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- 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
- benito juarez — Benito (Pablo) [be-nee-taw pah-vlaw] /bɛˈni tɔ ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1806–72, president of Mexico 1857–72.
- bite your lip — If you bite your lip, you try very hard not to show the anger or distress that you are feeling.
- bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
- bounty hunter — A bounty hunter is someone who tries to find or kill someone in order to get the reward that has been offered.
- bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
- bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
- boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
- brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
- brazen it out — to act in a bold way as if one need not be ashamed
- break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
- budget period — the time which a budget covers
- bulbourethral — of or relating to the rounded mass of tissue surrounding the urethra at the root of the penis.
- bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
- buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
- 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 block — designating or of a thick slab made by gluing together strips of hardwood, as maple or oak, used for counter and table tops, etc.
- butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
- butter cookie — Cookery. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.
- butter cooler — an earthenware container, consisting of a dish and cover, used to keep butter cool
- 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
- butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
- by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
- 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.
- carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
- carte du jour — a menu listing dishes available on a particular day
- cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
- cauterization — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
- centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
- chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
- chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
- checkout girl — a female employee who works on a supermarket checkout
- chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.