13-letter words containing en
- authentically — not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique.
- authenticated — Prove or show (something, esp. a claim or an artistic work) to be true or genuine.
- authenticates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authenticate.
- authenticator — a person or thing that authenticates.
- availableness — Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.
- back-end load — the final charges of commission and expenses made by an investment trust, insurance policy, etc, when the investor is paid out
- bacteriogenic — Caused by bacteria.
- baker's dozen — thirteen
- bamboozlement — The act or process of bamboozling or being bamboozled.
- banana bender — a native or inhabitant of Queensland
- 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.
- basement flat — a flat below the ground floor of a building
- 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 english — a simplified form of English, proposed by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, containing a vocabulary of approximately 850 of the commonest English words, intended as an international language
- bassenthwaite — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria near Keswick. Length: 6 km (4 miles)
- bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
- bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
- 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.
- bedroom scene — a scene in which lovers are in bed
- beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
- belligerently — aggressively
- bench warrant — a warrant issued by a judge or court directing that an offender be apprehended
- benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
- bend sinister — a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line
- bend the knee — to kneel or submit
- benedict viii — died 1024, pope 1012–24.
- benedict xiii — (Pietro Francesco Orsini) 1649–1730, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1724–30.
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- beneficential — relating to beneficence
- beneficiary's — a person or group that receives benefits, profits, or advantages.
- beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- benefit match — a sports match organized to raise money for charity, or for a particular player
- bengal quince — bael.
- benightedness — intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
- benito juarez — Benito (Pablo) [be-nee-taw pah-vlaw] /bɛˈni tɔ ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1806–72, president of Mexico 1857–72.
- benjamin west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
- benjamin-bush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- benton harbor — a city in SW Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- benzalacetone — benzylidene acetone.
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
- benzoyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 5 O–, derived from benzoic acid.
- berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
- bergen-belsen — Belsen.
- beta carotene — a yellowish form of carotene: a dietary deficiency of this is associated with a greater risk of certain cancers
- beta-carotene — the most abundant of various isomers of carotene, C 40 H 56 , that can be converted by the body to vitamin A.
- bethnal green — a former borough of London, England, N of the Thames.
- between times — at intervals, as between other events or actions
- betweenwhiles — betweentimes.