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13-letter words containing s, e, o

  • balloon shade — a window shade that when raised is gathered into a series of puffy festoons created by inverted pleats in the fabric.
  • balsamiferous — yielding or producing balsam
  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
  • bang goes sth — If you say bang goes something, you mean that it is now obvious that it cannot succeed or be achieved.
  • bank of issue — a bank, as a Federal Reserve Bank, empowered by a government to issue currency.
  • banking house — a more formal term for a bank
  • barbados aloe — a tropical aloe, Aloe barbadensis (or A. vera), of the lily family, having clusters of yellow flowers: its juice is used medicinally.
  • barbarousness — The state or quality of being barbarous.
  • barber's pole — a sign outside a barber's shop consisting of a pole painted with red and white spiral stripes
  • barbershopper — a member of a barbershop singing group.
  • barcoo salute — a movement of the hand to brush flies away from the face
  • baroreceptors — Plural form of baroreceptor.
  • base hospital — a hospital serving a large rural area
  • base on balls — walk
  • 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 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
  • basidiospores — Plural form of basidiospore.
  • basket flower — a composite plant, Centaurea americana, of central U.S. to Mexico, having raylike heads of tubular rose-colored flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of bracts making the flower head appear as if it is set in a basket.
  • bass response — the response of an audio reproduction system or component to low frequencies
  • bass trombone — the lower-pitched of the two main types of trombone
  • bass-baritone — a singer or voice in the bass range with baritone qualities
  • basso rilievo — bas-relief
  • basso-relievo — bas-relief
  • batch-process — to perform batch processing on (files)
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
  • be news to sb — If you say that something is news to you, you mean that you did not previously know what you have just been told, especially when you are surprised or annoyed about it.
  • be nuts about — to be greatly in love with
  • be one's life — If you say that something or someone is your life, you are emphasizing that they are extremely important to you.
  • be spoken for — If a person or thing is spoken for or has been spoken for, someone has claimed them or asked for them, so no-one else can have them.
  • be witness to — If you are witness to something, you see it happen.
  • 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
  • beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
  • beast of prey — any animal that hunts other animals for food
  • beat sb to it — If you intend to do something but someone beats you to it, they do it before you do.
  • beauteousness — The state or quality of being beauteous.
  • bedroom scene — a scene in which lovers are in bed
  • bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
  • bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
  • beehive house — a prehistoric circular building found in various parts of Europe, usually of stone and having a dome-shaped roof
  • 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.
  • beige toaster — Macintosh
  • belongingness — the human state of being an essential part of something
  • bespottedness — the state of being covered with spots or blemishes
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