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13-letter words containing bo

  • port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
  • premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
  • principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
  • pro-abolition — the act of abolishing: the abolition of war.
  • property bond — a bond issued by a life-assurance company, the premiums for which are invested in a property-owning fund
  • pubococcygeus — a muscle that stretches backward from the pubes toward the coccyx and forms part of the pelvic floor. Abbreviation: PC.
  • quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
  • rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
  • ribbon window — a long window made up of a number of individual compartments set together horizontally with little or no division.
  • ribosomal rna — a type of RNA, distinguished by its length and abundance, functioning in protein synthesis as a component of ribosomes. Abbreviation: rRNA.
  • robot dancing — a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements
  • rock the boat — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
  • running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
  • sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
  • sacred bamboo — nandina.
  • scotch bonnet — a small, irregularly shaped, extremely hot chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense related to the habanero and ranging from yellow to red.
  • shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
  • shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
  • shoeshine boy — a man or boy who cleans shoes
  • simon bolivar — Simón [sahy-muh n;; Spanish see-mawn] /ˈsaɪ mən;; Spanish siˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), ("El Libertador") 1783–1830, Venezuelan statesman: leader of revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule.
  • siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • skin and bone — You can say someone is just skin and bone when you do not approve of the fact that they are very thin.
  • soapbox derby — a race between children in homemade racing carts
  • sodium borate — borax1 .
  • spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
  • spelling-book — a person who spells words.
  • sphenoid bone — the large butterfly-shaped compound bone at the base of the skull, containing a protective depression for the pituitary gland
  • splenial bone — a small bone in the lower jaw of some animals, such as reptiles and birds
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • status symbol — an object, habit, etc., by which the social or economic status of the possessor may be judged.
  • stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
  • subordination — the act of placing in a lower rank or position: The refusal to allow women to be educated was part of society's subordination of women to men.
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • sulfur-bottom — blue whale.
  • surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
  • swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
  • symbolic link — (file format)   (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
  • symbolization — the act or process of symbolizing.
  • symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
  • take on board — be receptive
  • telephone box — a more or less soundproof booth containing a public telephone.
  • temporal bone — either of a pair of thick compound bones forming the part of the skull that encases the inner ear.
  • the boat race — a rowing event held annually in the spring, in which an eight representing Oxford University rows against one representing Cambridge University on the Thames between Putney and Mortlake
  • the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
  • the gas board — any company supplying gas as a source of domestic and industrial heat
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