13-letter words containing n, b, o
- bona vacantia — unclaimed goods
- bonanza creek — a stream in W Yukon Territory, Canada, flowing NW to the Klondike River near Dawson: gold strike 1896. 20 miles (32 km) long.
- bonanza state — a name for the state of Montana
- bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
- bone-chilling — extremely cold
- bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
- bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
- boniface viii — original name Benedict Caetano. ?1234–1303, pope (1294–1303)
- bonin islands — a group of 27 volcanic islands in the W Pacific: occupied by the US after World War II; returned to Japan in 1968. Largest island: Chichijima. Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles)
- bonnet monkey — an Indian macaque, Macaca radiata, with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
- bonus eventus — the ancient Roman god of agricultural prosperity.
- book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
- book scorpion — any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions), esp Chelifer cancroides, which are sometimes found in old books, etc
- book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
- booking agent — an agent who makes bookings, as reservations for travel or the theater or engagements for performers, for clients.
- booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
- boolean logic — (logic) A logic based on Boolean algebra.
- boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
- boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
- boots and all — making every effort; with no holds barred
- boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope
- boring sponge — any of a family (Clionidae) of sponges that settle on and dissolve the shells of clams
- boris godunov — Boris Fedorovich [bawr-is fi-dawr-uh-vich,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs fɪˈdɔr ə vɪtʃ,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1552–1605, regent of Russia 1584–98 and czar 1598–1605.
- borlotti bean — variety of kidney bean
- borna disease — viral disease found in mammals, esp horses
- boron carbide — a black extremely hard inert substance having a high capture cross section for thermal neutrons. It is used as an abrasive, refractory, and in control rods in nuclear reactors. Formula: B4C
- boron hydride — borane.
- boron nitride — a white inert crystalline solid existing both in a graphite-like form and in an extremely hard diamond-like form (borazon). It is used as a refractory, high-temperature lubricant and insulator, and heat shield. Formula: BN
- bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
- boston matrix — a two-dimensional matrix, used in planning the business strategy of a large organization, that identifies those business units in the organization that generate cash and those that use it
- boston rocker — a type of 19th-cent. American rocking chair, having a curved wooden seat and a high back formed of spindles held in place by a broad headpiece
- bottle blonde — a woman with dyed blonde hair
- bottle-opener — A bottle-opener is a metal device for removing caps or tops from bottles.
- bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
- bottom-unique — In domain theory, a function f is bottom-unique if f x = bottom <=> x = bottom A bottom-unique function is also strict.
- bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
- boudoir grand — a domestic grand piano between 5 and 6 feet in length
- bougainvillea — Bougainvillea is a climbing plant that has thin, red or purple flowers and grows mainly in hot countries.
- bouillon cube — A bouillon cube is a solid cube made from dried meat or vegetable juices and other flavorings. Bouillon cubes are used to add flavor to dishes such as stews and soups.
- bounce around — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- bouncing bomb — a bomb used by the RAF in World War II, designed to bounce along water
- bouncy castle — A bouncy castle is a large object filled with air, often in the shape of a castle, which children play on at a fairground or other outdoor event.
- bound up with — closely or inextricably linked with
- boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
- boundary peak — a peak in SW Nevada, in the White Mountains, near the California border: highest elevation in Nevada. 13,143 feet (4006 meters).
- boundary scan — The use of scan registers to capture state from device input and output pins. IEEE Standard 1149.1-1990 describes the international standard implementation (sometimes called JTAG after the Joint Test Action Group which began the standardisation work).
- bounty hunter — A bounty hunter is someone who tries to find or kill someone in order to get the reward that has been offered.
- bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
- bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.