13-letter words containing et
- araeometrical — relating to araeometry
- archaeometric — relating to archaeometry
- arithmetician — a person skilled in arithmetic
- arretine ware — a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Tuscany from 100 b.c. to a.d. 100 and widely traded.
- arseniuretted — combined with arsenic so as to form an arsenide.
- as all getout — Commerce. the break-even point.
- asset account — An asset account is an account that records the assets owned by a company.
- athletic shoe — a shoe designed to be worn for sports, exercising, or recreational activity, as racquetball, jogging, or aerobic dancing.
- audiocassette — a cassette containing audiotape
- babbitt metal — any of a number of alloys originally based on tin, antimony, and copper but now often including lead: used esp in bearings
- bachelorettes — Plural form of bachelorette.
- balance sheet — A balance sheet is a written statement of the amount of money and property that a company or person has, including amounts of money that are owed or are owing. Balance sheet is also used to refer to the general financial state of a company.
- balanced diet — a diet consisting of the proper quantities and proportions of foods needed to maintain health or growth.
- ballet dancer — a man or woman who takes part in ballet dancing, usually professionally
- ballet lesson — a class in which ballet is taught
- ballet master — a man who teaches and rehearses the dancers in a ballet company
- ballet school — a school where professional ballet dancers are trained
- band together — If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
- bartlett pear — a large, juicy variety of pear
- 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
- basket clause — an all-inclusive or comprehensive clause in a contract
- basket dinner — a group social gathering, as of church members, to which participants contribute casseroles or other dishes to share.
- 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 clarinet — a clarinet with the lowest range, in the octave below the B-flat clarinet
- bathylimnetic — (of an organism) living in the depths of lakes and marshes
- battle jacket — a closefitting jacket reaching to the waist
- be better off — If you say that someone would be better off doing something, you are advising them to do it or expressing the opinion that it would benefit them to do it.
- beetle-browed — having bushy or overhanging eyebrows
- beetle-headed — a stupid person; blockhead.
- beetlebrained — stupid
- benzalacetone — benzylidene acetone.
- berber carpet — a type of plain coloured carpeting, usually cream, oatmeal or light brown
- 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.
- beta carotene — a yellowish form of carotene: a dietary deficiency of this is associated with a greater risk of certain cancers
- beta function — a function of two variables, usually expressed as an improper integral and equal to the quotient of the product of the values of the gamma function at each variable divided by the value of the gamma function at the sum of the variables.
- beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
- beta particle — a high-speed electron or positron emitted by a nucleus during radioactive decay or nuclear fission
- beta receptor — a receptor, found on the surface of some cells of the sympathetic nervous system, that is stimulated by certain adrenergic substances: such stimulation results in certain physiological responses, such as acceleration of the action of the heart and dilatation of the arteries supplying heart and skeletal muscles
- beta-blocking — acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
- beta-carotene — the most abundant of various isomers of carotene, C 40 H 56 , that can be converted by the body to vitamin A.
- beta-naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
- beta-receptor — a site on a cell, as of the heart, that, upon interaction with epinephrine or norepinephrine, controls heartbeat and heart contractability, vasodilation, smooth muscle inhibition, and other physiological processes.
- betamethasone — a synthetic analogue of a glucocorticoid, C 22 H 29 FO 5 , used in various forms in the treatment of inflammation, allergies, and tumors, and for replacement therapy in adrenal insufficiency.
- bethnal green — a former borough of London, England, N of the Thames.
- between times — at intervals, as between other events or actions
- betweenwhiles — betweentimes.
- bible society — a Christian organization devoted to the printing and distribution of the Bible.
- bimetallistic — relating to bimetallism
- bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
- biogeneticist — genetic engineering.