13-letter words containing le
- ballet school — a school where professional ballet dancers are trained
- bamboozlement — The act or process of bamboozling or being bamboozled.
- banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
- barber's pole — a sign outside a barber's shop consisting of a pole painted with red and white spiral stripes
- baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
- barley stripe — a disease of barley, characterized by blighted heads and chlorotic, brown, or frayed stripes on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Helminthosporium gramineum.
- barnacle code — (programming, humour) Any piece of code (usually a static method) that has been appended to a class where it doesn't logically belong, due to a lack of anywhere else to put it.
- bartlett pear — a large, juicy variety of pear
- bastard title — half title (def 1).
- bastard-title — Also called bastard title. the first printed page of certain books, appearing after the end papers and before the title page and containing only the title of the book.
- baton twirler — someone who twirls a baton, esp a drum major or majorette
- battle it out — If one group or person battles it out with another, they take part in a fight or contest against each other until one of them wins or a definite result is reached. You can also say that two groups or two people battle it out.
- battle jacket — a closefitting jacket reaching to the waist
- battlecruiser — A large warship of a type built in the early 20th century, carrying similar armament to a battleship but faster and more lightly armored.
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
- bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
- be muffled up — If you are muffled up, you are wearing a lot of heavy clothes so that very little of your body or face is visible.
- beached whale — large sea mammal stranded on shore
- bedside table — a small table beside a bed
- beetle-browed — having bushy or overhanging eyebrows
- beetle-headed — a stupid person; blockhead.
- beetlebrained — stupid
- beginningless — having no beginning
- beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
- bellefontaine — a city in W Ohio.
- benzimidazole — a crystalline growth-inhibiting compound
- 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]>.
- bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
- beta particle — a high-speed electron or positron emitted by a nucleus during radioactive decay or nuclear fission
- betweenwhiles — betweentimes.
- bevelled edge — an inclined edge; one not at 90 degrees
- biased sample — a statistical sample in which the items selected share some property which influences their distribution
- bible college — an institution of higher education that specializes in Bible study, typically for the education of Protestant clergy
- bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
- bible society — a Christian organization devoted to the printing and distribution of the Bible.
- bible-thumper — an enthusiastic or aggressive exponent of the Bible
- bicycle chain — a chain that transmits power from the pedals to the driving wheel of a bicycle
- bigleaf maple — a tree, Acer macrophyllum, of western North America, having large, deeply lobed leaves and fragrant yellow flowers in drooping clusters.
- billing cycle — the schedule of recurrent times in any regular system of preparing or sending bills.
- bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
- biocompatible — not rejected by the body
- biodegradable — Something that is biodegradable breaks down or decays naturally without any special scientific treatment, and can therefore be thrown away without causing pollution.
- bioelectrical — relating to electrical current generated by biological activity
- bioequivalent — the condition in which different formulations of the same drug or chemical are equally absorbed when taken into the body.
- biospeleology — the study of organisms that live in caves.