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13-letter words containing s, a, b, c

  • balance sheet — A balance sheet is a written statement of the amount of money and property that a company or person has, including amounts of money that are owed or are owing. Balance sheet is also used to refer to the general financial state of a company.
  • balance staff — a pivoted axle or shaft on which the balance is mounted.
  • balanced step — any of a series of staircase winders so planned that they are nearly as wide at the inside of the stair as the adjacent fliers.
  • balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • ballet school — a school where professional ballet dancers are trained
  • ballistically — of or relating to ballistics.
  • balsam capivi — copaiba.
  • balsam spruce — either of two North American coniferous trees of the genus Picea, P. pungens (the blue spruce) or P. engelmanni
  • baltic shield — the wide area of ancient rock in Scandinavia
  • baltic states — the republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which became constituent republics of the former Soviet Union in 1940, regaining their independence in 1991
  • bancassurance — the selling of insurance products by a bank to its customers
  • band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
  • banister back — a back of a chair or the like, usually having semicircular spindles between the top rail and the cross rail or seat.
  • bank discount — interest on a loan deducted from the principal amount when the loan is made and based on the loan's face value
  • barbary coast — coastal region of N Africa, extending from Egypt to the Atlantic, inhabited chiefly by Berbers and once (until early 19th cent.) dominated by pirates
  • barber's itch — any of various fungal infections of the bearded portion of the neck and face
  • barcoo salute — a movement of the hand to brush flies away from the face
  • barefacedness — The state or quality of being barefaced.
  • baroreceptors — Plural form of baroreceptor.
  • barrel cactus — any of several large, cylindrical, ribbed, spiny cacti of the genera Echinocactus and Ferocactus.
  • base exchange — a nonprofit general store at a military base, for the sale of merchandise for personal use, refreshments, etc.
  • basel accords — the three sets of rules, Basel I, Basel II, and Basel III, for regulating the banking industry, drawn up by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
  • baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
  • basement-rock — the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
  • basic english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
  • basic fortran — (language)   A subset of Fortran.
  • basic plumage — the plumage assumed by an adult bird at its complete, usually annual, molt.
  • basic process — Military. basic training. a soldier or airman receiving basic training.
  • basidiomycete — any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the spores are produced in basidia. The group includes boletes, puffballs, smuts, and rusts
  • basket clause — an all-inclusive or comprehensive clause in a contract
  • bass clarinet — a clarinet with the lowest range, in the octave below the B-flat clarinet
  • batch-process — to perform batch processing on (files)
  • battlecruiser — A large warship of a type built in the early 20th century, carrying similar armament to a battleship but faster and more lightly armored.
  • bay of biscay — a large bay of the Atlantic Ocean between W France and N Spain: notorious for storms
  • beacon school — a notably successful school whose methods and practices are brought to the attention of the education service as a whole in order that they may be adopted by other schools
  • 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
  • bear's-breech — a widely cultivated S European acanthus plant, Acanthus mollis, having whitish purple-veined flowers
  • beggar's-lice — any of several plants, esp the stickseed, having small prickly fruits that adhere to clothing, fur, etc
  • 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.
  • bell purchase — a tackle consisting of two standing single blocks, two running single blocks, a fall, and a runner, so arranged that it gives a mechanical advantage of six, neglecting friction.
  • beneficiary's — a person or group that receives benefits, profits, or advantages.
  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • best practice — Best practice is the way of running a business or providing a service that is recognized as correct or most effective.
  • bewick's swan — a white Old World swan, Cygnus bewickii, having a black bill with a small yellow base
  • bicentennials — pertaining to or in honor of a 200th anniversary: bicentennial celebration; a bicentennial exposition.
  • biculturalism — the characteristics, or policy, of a two-cultured society
  • bignoniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bignoniaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including jacaranda, bignonia, and catalpa
  • bimetallistic — relating to bimetallism
  • binary search — (algorithm)   A search algorithm which repeatedly divides an ordered search space in half according to how the required (key) value compares with the middle element. The following pseudo-C routine performs a binary search return the index of the element of vector "thing[first..last]" equal to "target": if (target < thing[first] || target > thing[last]) return NOT_FOUND; while (first < last) { mid = (first+last)/2; /* truncate to integer */ if (target == thing[mid]) return mid; if (target < thing[mid]) last = mid-1; else first = mid+1; } if (target == thing[last]) return last; return NOT_FOUND; (2003-01-14)
  • biostatistics — the use of statistics to analyse biological data
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