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13-letter words containing bb

  • abbey theatre — an influential theatre in Dublin (opened 1904): associated with it were Synge, Yeats, Lady Gregory, and O'Casey. It was destroyed by fire in 1951 but was rebuilt; it reopened in 1966
  • abbreviations — a shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, as Dr. for Doctor, U.S. for United States, lb. for pound.
  • angora rabbit — a breed of rabbit with long usually white silky hair
  • armed robbery — a robbery that is carried out by people carrying guns
  • babbitt metal — any of a number of alloys originally based on tin, antimony, and copper but now often including lead: used esp in bearings
  • back-stabbing — Back-stabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
  • bbn butterfly — (computer)   A supercomputer developed at BBN Technologies, named after the "butterfly" multi-stage switching network around which it was built. It could have up to 512 CPUs connected to allow every CPU access to every other CPU's memory, albeit with about 15 times the latency than for its own. The earlier GP-1000 models used up to 256 Motorola 68020s. The later TC-2000 models used up to 512 Motorola 88100s. Language developed for, or ported to, the BBN Butterfly were Butterfly Common LISP, Butterfly Scheme, Delirium, and MultiScheme.
  • bobby dazzler — a person or thing that is outstanding or excellent.
  • bobby-dazzler — anything outstanding, striking, or showy, esp an attractive girl
  • brass rubbing — A brass rubbing is a picture made by placing a piece of paper over a brass plate that has writing or a picture on it, and rubbing it with a wax crayon.
  • brass-rubbing — an antiquarian's technique for copying designs from incised brass memorial slabs and the like.
  • bubble column — A bubble column is a reactor in which a gas bubbles up through a liquid or slurry.
  • bubble memory — a method of storing high volumes of data by the use of minute pockets of magnetism (bubbles) in a semiconducting material. The bubbles may be caused to migrate past a read head or to a buffer area for storage
  • cabbage aphid — a small, blue aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae, that feeds on cabbage and related plants.
  • cabbage white — any large white butterfly of the genus Pieris, esp the Eurasian species P. brassicae, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of cabbages and related vegetables: family Pieridae
  • cabbalistical — cabbalistic
  • carbon ribbon — the ribbon in a typewriter which contains the ink which produces the letters on paper
  • caribbean sea — an almost landlocked sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean, bounded by the Caribbean islands, Central America, and the N coast of South America. Area: 2 718 200 sq km (1 049 500 sq miles)
  • caribbee bark — the bark of any of various tropical American and Caribbean rubiaceous trees of the genus Exostema, used as a substitute for cinchona bark
  • charles abbotCharles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
  • cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
  • dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
  • dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
  • edward gibbonEdward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • fabric ribbon — a typewriter ribbon made of inked material
  • flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabbergaster — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • frame grabber — (hardware)   A device that captures a single frame from an analog video signal (from a video camera or VCR) and stores it as a digital image under computer control.
  • gibble-gabble — senseless chatter.
  • grave-robbing — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
  • hubble effect — redshift
  • hubble-bubble — a simple form of the hookah, in which the smoke passes through water, causing a bubbling sound.
  • jibber-jabber — foolish or worthless talk; nonsense
  • lubber's hole — (in a top on a mast) an open space through which a sailor may pass instead of climbing out on the futtock shrouds.
  • lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
  • lubber's line — a vertical line on the forward inner side of the bowl of a fixed compass, used as a reference mark indicating the heading of a vessel.
  • melrose abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey in Melrose in Scottish Borders: founded in 1136 and sacked by the English in 1385 and 1547: repaired in 1822 by Sir Walter Scott
  • money grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • money-grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • moneygrubbers — Plural form of moneygrubber.
  • moneygrubbing — Alternative spelling of money-grubbing.
  • mother abbess — the female head of a religious house of nuns
  • nightclubbing — Also, night club. an establishment for evening entertainment, generally open until the early morning, that serves liquor and usually food and offers patrons music, comedy acts, a floor show, or dancing; nightspot.
  • on the bubble — in a situation in which the outcome is uncertain but already in the process of being determined or decided
  • pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
  • pebble heater — a heat exchanger utilizing refractory pellets to store and give off heat.
  • pencil rubber — a piece of rubber used for erasing something written in pencil; eraser
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • rabbath ammon — Amman.
  • rabbit warren — warren.

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