13-letter words containing el
- attributively — pertaining to or having the character of attribution or an attribute.
- aviation fuel — fuel used to power airplanes
- bab el mandeb — a strait between SW Arabia and E Africa, connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden
- baby elephant — a very young elephant
- bachelor flat — a flat lived in, or intended for a bachelor
- bachelor girl — a young unmarried woman, esp one who is self-supporting
- bachelor seal — a young male seal, esp a fur seal, that has not yet mated
- bachelorettes — Plural form of bachelorette.
- bahr el jebel — a river in S Sudan: a segment of the White Nile river. 594 miles (956 km) long.
- bakewell tart — an open tart having a pastry base and a layer of jam and filled with almond-flavoured sponge cake
- balance wheel — a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece, thereby regulating its beat
- baltic shield — the wide area of ancient rock in Scandinavia
- barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
- barrel cactus — any of several large, cylindrical, ribbed, spiny cacti of the genera Echinocactus and Ferocactus.
- barrel engine — an engine having cylinders arranged around and parallel to a shaft, which they rotate by means of the contact of their piston rods with a swash plate or cam on the shaft.
- barrel-shaped — having the shape of a barrel
- 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
- basso-relievo — bas-relief
- bead and reel — a convex molding having the form of elongated beads alternating with disks placed edge-on, or with spherical beads, or with both.
- beau brummell — any dandy or fop
- beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
- belgian congo — former Belgian colony (1908-60) in central Africa: now the country of Democratic Republic of the Congo
- belief system — The belief system of a person or society is the set of beliefs that they have about what is right and wrong and what is true and false.
- believability — to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
- 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.
- bellefontaine — a city in W Ohio.
- belligerently — aggressively
- belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
- belly of pork — a fatty cut of meat from the pig's belly
- belly-flopper — an awkward, usually unintentional dive in which the front of the body strikes the water horizontally, the abdomen or chest bearing the brunt of the impact.
- belongingness — the human state of being an essential part of something
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- bergen-belsen — Belsen.
- berkeleianism — the philosophical system of George Berkeley, holding that objects exist only when perceived, that God's perception sustains the universe, and that there is no independent substratum or substance in which these perceptions inhere
- berkeley logo — (language) A Logo interpreter by Brian Harvey <[email protected]>. Berkeley Logo programs will run on Unix, IBM PC, or Macintosh. It doesn't do anything fancy about graphics and only allows one turtle. Version: 4.6, as of 2000-03-21.
- berkeley unix — Berkeley Software Distribution
- berkeley yacc — (tool) (byacc, previously Zeus, then Zoo) Probably the best variant of the Yacc parser generator. Written by Robert Corbett <[email protected]>.
- bessel method — a method of ascertaining position by the use of a map showing prominent features of the terrain and enabling one to sight through them to obtain a fix.
- bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
- bevelled edge — an inclined edge; one not at 90 degrees
- beyond belief — You use beyond belief to emphasize that something is true to a very great degree or that it happened to a very great degree.
- bielsko-biala — a city in S Poland.
- bielsko-biała — a town in S Poland: created in 1951 by the union of Bielsko and Biała Krakowska; a leading textile centre since the 16th century. Pop: 356 000 (2005 est)
- bioelectrical — relating to electrical current generated by biological activity
- biospeleology — the study of organisms that live in caves.
- blister steel — steel produced from wrought iron by cementation in covered pots, having a blistered appearance because of the gases generated during the process.
- block release — the release of industrial trainees from work for study at a college for several weeks
- blood vessels — any of the vessels, as arteries, veins, or capillaries, through which the blood circulates.
- bloomfieldian — Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.