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13-letter words containing a, l, e, s

  • barber's pole — a sign outside a barber's shop consisting of a pole painted with red and white spiral stripes
  • barcoo salute — a movement of the hand to brush flies away from the face
  • 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.
  • barred spiral — a spiral galaxy in which the arms originate at the ends of a bar-shaped nucleus
  • barrel cactus — any of several large, cylindrical, ribbed, spiny cacti of the genera Echinocactus and Ferocactus.
  • barrel-shaped — having the shape of a barrel
  • base hospital — a hospital serving a large rural area
  • base on balls — walk
  • basel accords — the three sets of rules, Basel I, Basel II, and Basel III, for regulating the banking industry, drawn up by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
  • baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
  • basement flat — a flat below the ground floor of a building
  • 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
  • basic plumage — the plumage assumed by an adult bird at its complete, usually annual, molt.
  • basket clause — an all-inclusive or comprehensive clause in a contract
  • 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
  • basso rilievo — bas-relief
  • basso-relievo — bas-relief
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
  • beam splitter — a system that divides a beam of light, electrons, etc, into two or more paths
  • beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
  • bedside table — a small table beside a bed
  • beggar's-lice — any of several plants, esp the stickseed, having small prickly fruits that adhere to clothing, fur, etc
  • bell purchase — a tackle consisting of two standing single blocks, two running single blocks, a fall, and a runner, so arranged that it gives a mechanical advantage of six, neglecting friction.
  • 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
  • bias-ply tire — a vehicle tire in which the main plies or cords run across the bead.
  • biased sample — a statistical sample in which the items selected share some property which influences their distribution
  • bicentennials — pertaining to or in honor of a 200th anniversary: bicentennial celebration; a bicentennial exposition.
  • bielsko-biala — a city in S Poland.
  • bielsko-biała — a town in S Poland: created in 1951 by the union of Bielsko and Biała Krakowska; a leading textile centre since the 16th century. Pop: 356 000 (2005 est)
  • bimetallistic — relating to bimetallism
  • bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
  • black disease — an infectious necrotic hepatitis in sheep and occasionally cattle caused by toxins produced by infection with species of Clostridial. Secondary to liver fluke infestation, the disease is characterized by sudden death. So-called because of the black discolouration of subcutaneous tissues due to congestion and haemorrhage seen at post-mortem
  • black english — the group of related dialects of American English spoken variously by many black people in the U.S.
  • black measles — a severe form of measles characterized by dark eruptions caused by bleeding under the skin
  • 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
  • black skimmer — a black and white New World skimmer, Rynchops nigra, having a bill with a reddish-orange base.
  • black studies — a program of studies in black history and culture offered by a school or college, often including Afro-American history and black literature.
  • black-a-vised — having a dark complexion.
  • bladder senna — a Eurasian leguminous plant, Colutea arborescens, with yellow and red flowers and membranous inflated pods
  • blair's babes — (in Britain) the female Members of Parliament elected as part of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government in 1997
  • blaise pascal — Blaise [bleyz;; French blez] /bleɪz;; French blɛz/ (Show IPA), 1623–62, French philosopher and mathematician.
  • blameableness — the quality of being blameable
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