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13-letter words containing p, o

  • beta-receptor — a site on a cell, as of the heart, that, upon interaction with epinephrine or norepinephrine, controls heartbeat and heart contractability, vasodilation, smooth muscle inhibition, and other physiological processes.
  • bibliographer — an expert in bibliography
  • bibliographic — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
  • bibliophagist — a person who devours books
  • bibliotherapy — the use of reading as therapy
  • big-cone pine — Coulter pine.
  • binary weapon — a chemical weapon consisting of a projectile containing two substances separately that mix to produce a lethal agent when the projectile is fired
  • bio-autograph — an analytical technique in which organic compounds are separated by chromatography and identified by studying their effects on microorganisms.
  • bioautography — an analytical technique in which organic compounds are separated by chromatography and identified by studying their effects on microorganisms.
  • biocompatible — not rejected by the body
  • biogeographer — a person who is knowledgeable about biogeography
  • biopsychology — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
  • biospeleology — the study of organisms that live in caves.
  • bird of peace — a dove.
  • birthing pool — a large bath in which a woman can give birth
  • bishop sleeve — a full sleeve gathered at the wrist
  • bishop violet — a reddish purple.
  • bishop's ring — a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.
  • bishop's weed — goutweed.
  • bishop's-weed — goutweed.
  • bite your lip — If you bite your lip, you try very hard not to show the anger or distress that you are feeling.
  • blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
  • bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
  • blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
  • blepharospasm — spasm of the muscle of the eyelids, causing the eyes to shut tightly, either as a response to painful stimuli or occurring as a form of dystonia
  • block capital — a sans-serif letter with lines of uniform weight.
  • blood product — a pharmaceutical product made from blood, such as Factor VIII
  • blood profile — a diagnostic test that determines the exact numbers of each type of blood cell in a fixed quantity of blood. Abbreviation: CBC.
  • blood pudding — Blood pudding is another word for black pudding.
  • blood-profile — a diagnostic test that determines the exact numbers of each type of blood cell in a fixed quantity of blood. Abbreviation: CBC.
  • blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
  • 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.
  • boarding pass — A boarding pass is a card that a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
  • boardroom pay — the salaries and bonuses given to the directors of a company
  • bodice ripper — You can refer to a film or novel which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes as a bodice ripper, especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
  • bodice-ripper — a modern Gothic novel or historical romance, usually in paperback format, featuring at least one passionate love scene, characteristically one in which the heroine vainly resists submitting to the villain or hero.
  • body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
  • boiling point — The boiling point of a liquid is the temperature at which it starts to change into steam or vapour. For example, the boiling point of water is 100° centigrade.
  • bolt up right — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
  • bomb disposal — Bomb disposal is the job of dealing with bombs which have not exploded, by taking out the fuse or by blowing them up in a controlled explosion.
  • booby-trapped — (of a building, vehicle, etc) planted with a booby trap
  • book scorpion — any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions), esp Chelifer cancroides, which are sometimes found in old books, etc
  • boom operator — a person who operates a boom
  • border patrol — a government agency in charge of preventing terrorists, weapons, and illegal immigrants entering the country
  • border police — the force in charge of policing a border
  • boring sponge — any of a family (Clionidae) of sponges that settle on and dissolve the shells of clams
  • bosch process — an industrial process for manufacturing hydrogen by the catalytic reduction of steam with carbon monoxide
  • bottle-opener — A bottle-opener is a metal device for removing caps or tops from bottles.
  • bound up with — closely or inextricably linked with
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