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13-letter words containing on

  • balloon shade — a window shade that when raised is gathered into a series of puffy festoons created by inverted pleats in the fabric.
  • balloon-berry — strawberry-raspberry.
  • bang on about — If someone bangs on about something, they keep talking about it in a boring or annoying way.
  • baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
  • baron of beef — a cut of beef consisting of a double sirloin joined at the backbone
  • baronial hall — a large building or room owned by a baron
  • baryon number — the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
  • base on balls — walk
  • bass response — the response of an audio reproduction system or component to low frequencies
  • bass trombone — the lower-pitched of the two main types of trombone
  • bass-baritone — a singer or voice in the bass range with baritone qualities
  • baton twirler — someone who twirls a baton, esp a drum major or majorette
  • bazillionaire — (humorous) An incredibly rich person.
  • be one's life — If you say that something or someone is your life, you are emphasizing that they are extremely important to you.
  • beacon school — a notably successful school whose methods and practices are brought to the attention of the education service as a whole in order that they may be adopted by other schools
  • beacon status — a ranking awarded by the government to an organization, rendering it eligible for extra funding, and aimed at encouraging organizations to share good practice with each other
  • beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
  • beef bouillon — a broth made either by straining water in which bits of lean beef have been cooked or by dissolving beef extract in hot water.
  • belgian congo — former Belgian colony (1908-60) in central Africa: now the country of Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • bellefontaine — a city in W Ohio.
  • belongingness — the human state of being an essential part of something
  • benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
  • benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
  • beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
  • benton harbor — a city in SW Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
  • benzalacetone — benzylidene acetone.
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • beyond a joke — If you say that an annoying or worrying situation is beyond a joke, you are emphasizing that it is worse than you think is fair or reasonable.
  • 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.
  • beyond number — too numerous to be counted
  • beyond recall — If something is beyond recall, it is no longer possible to remember how it was or to bring it back to its original condition.
  • biconditional — (of a proposition) asserting that the existence or occurrence of one thing or event depends on, and is dependent on, the existence or occurrence of another, as “A if and only if B.”.
  • bicontinental — of, on, or involving two continents: a bicontinental survey.
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • big-cone pine — Coulter pine.
  • bignoniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bignoniaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including jacaranda, bignonia, and catalpa
  • binary weapon — a chemical weapon consisting of a projectile containing two substances separately that mix to produce a lethal agent when the projectile is fired
  • bioconversion — the use of biological processes or materials to change organic substances into a new form, such as the conversion of waste into methane by fermentation
  • birth control — Birth control means planning whether to have children, and using contraception to prevent having them when they are not wanted.
  • bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
  • bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
  • bitonal image — (graphics)   An image consisting only of a foreground colour and a background colour. Compare monochrome.
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • black diamond — coal (sense 1)
  • black economy — The black economy consists of the buying, selling, and producing of goods or services that goes on without the government being informed, so that people can avoid paying tax on them.
  • black section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
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