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

  • assessability — The quality of being assessable.
  • assignability — The quality of being assignable.
  • associability — the condition of or the capacity to be associable or linked or related in thinking
  • asteroid belt — the concentrations of asteroids that move around the sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
  • at one's back — behind, esp in support or pursuit
  • at one's best — in one's best mood, form, health, etc.
  • at sb's heels — If a person or an animal is at your heels, they are following close behind you.
  • atrabilarious — Characterized by melancholy or gloom.
  • austin dobson — (Henry) Austin, 1840–1921, English poet, biographer, and essayist.
  • autostability — the property of being stable either as a result of inherent characteristics or of built-in devices
  • baal shem tov — original name Israel ben Eliezer ?1700–60, Jewish religious leader, teacher, and healer in Poland: founder of modern Hasidism
  • baal-shem-tov — (Israel ben Eliezer"Besht") c1700–60, Ukrainian teacher and religious leader: founder of the Hasidic movement of Judaism.
  • baby snatcher — a person who steals a baby from its pram
  • baby's-breath — a tall Eurasian caryophyllaceous plant, Gypsophila paniculata, bearing small white or pink fragrant flowers
  • bachelorettes — Plural form of bachelorette.
  • back straight — a straight part of a circuit, esp of an athletics track or a racecourse, furthest from the finishing point
  • back-stabbing — Back-stabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
  • backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • backscratcher — an implement with a long handle, used for scratching one's back
  • backstitching — Present participle of backstitch.
  • bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
  • bacteriolysis — the destruction or disintegration of bacteria
  • bacterioscopy — the examination of bacteria with a microscope.
  • bacteriostats — Plural form of bacteriostat.
  • bag of tricks — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
  • bag of waters — a fluid-filled membranous sac in the pregnant uterus that encloses and cushions the fetus, normally breaking at or just before the time of birth; the amnion.
  • bag-snatching — theft that involves snatching women's handbags
  • baggagemaster — a person employed, especially by a railroad, bus company, or steamship line, to take charge of passengers' baggage.
  • baker's yeast — a yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) used in baking as a leavening, as for certain breads
  • balance shaft — a shaft in a vehicle engine that is designed to reduce the amount of vibration from other moving parts as it rotates
  • 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.
  • balkan states — the countries of the Balkan Peninsula: the former Yugoslavian Republics, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, and the European part of Turkey
  • ballad stanza — a four-line stanza, often used in ballads, in which the second and fourth lines rhyme and have three stresses each and the first and third lines are unrhymed and have four stresses each
  • ballet lesson — a class in which ballet is taught
  • ballet master — a man who teaches and rehearses the dancers in a ballet company
  • ballet school — a school where professional ballet dancers are trained
  • ballistically — of or relating to ballistics.
  • ballistospore — a spore, esp a fungal spore, that is forcefully ejected from its source
  • 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
  • baluster stem — a stem of a drinking glass or the like having a gradual swelling near the top or bottom.
  • bamboo shoots — the shoots of the bamboo plant, often used as food in Asian dishes
  • banbury tarts — small baked pastries filled with raisins, currants, etc.
  • 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
  • bang goes sth — If you say bang goes something, you mean that it is now obvious that it cannot succeed or be achieved.
  • 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
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