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13-letter words containing a, b, o

  • assembly room — a room used as a public place of entertainment, usually dating from the eighteenth or nineteenth century
  • assemblywoman — In the United States, an assemblywoman is a female elected member of an assembly of people who make decisions and laws.
  • assemblywomen — Plural form of assemblywoman.
  • associability — the condition of or the capacity to be associable or linked or related in thinking
  • asteroid belt — the concentrations of asteroids that move around the sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
  • at one's back — behind, esp in support or pursuit
  • at one's best — in one's best mood, form, health, etc.
  • at the double — at twice normal marching speed
  • atomic number — the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of an element
  • atrabilarious — Characterized by melancholy or gloom.
  • attributional — of or relating to the act of attributing
  • auction block — Also called block. a platform from which an auctioneer sells: the old courthouse where slaves were sold from the auction block.
  • austin dobson — (Henry) Austin, 1840–1921, English poet, biographer, and essayist.
  • autobiography — Your autobiography is an account of your life, which you write yourself.
  • autostability — the property of being stable either as a result of inherent characteristics or of built-in devices
  • baal merodach — Marduk.
  • baal shem tov — original name Israel ben Eliezer ?1700–60, Jewish religious leader, teacher, and healer in Poland: founder of modern Hasidism
  • baal-shem-tov — (Israel ben Eliezer"Besht") c1700–60, Ukrainian teacher and religious leader: founder of the Hasidic movement of Judaism.
  • baba ghanoush — a thick purée of aubergines, tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic, originating in North Africa and the Mediterranean
  • baby primrose — a tender primrose, Primula forbesii, native to China and Burma, having white, hairy leaves and rose- or lilac-colored flowers with a yellow center.
  • 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.
  • bacillophobia — The fear of microbes. Also known as germaphobia.
  • back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
  • back mutation — the reversion of a mutant to the original phenotype
  • back to front — If you are wearing something back to front, you are wearing it with the back of it at the front of your body. If you do something back to front, you do it the wrong way around, starting with the part that should come last.
  • back walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
  • back-end load — the final charges of commission and expenses made by an investment trust, insurance policy, etc, when the investor is paid out
  • backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
  • backdoor play — an offensive tactic whereby a player breaks away from a defender to receive a pass near the baseline in order to make a quick layup.
  • backformation — Alternative spelling of back-formation.
  • backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
  • backgrounding — Present participle of background.
  • backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • backward roll — a gymnastic roll that is performed with the feet going first and the rest of the body and the head following
  • backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
  • bacteriocidal — Alternative spelling of bactericidal.
  • bacteriogenic — Caused by bacteria.
  • bacteriologic — a branch of microbiology dealing with the identification, study, and cultivation of bacteria and with their applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and biotechnology.
  • bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
  • bacteriolysis — the destruction or disintegration of bacteria
  • bacteriolytic — disintegration or dissolution of bacteria.
  • bacteriophage — a virus that is parasitic in a bacterium and multiplies within its host, which is destroyed when the new viruses are released
  • bacteriophagy — the action of a bacteriophage
  • bacterioscopy — the examination of bacteria with a microscope.
  • bacteriostats — Plural form of bacteriostat.
  • bacteriotoxin — any toxin that kills bacteria
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