13-Letter Words Starting with B

French school-leaving exam

Higher education exam

Type of degree

Celebrate host dancing for girls in New York (wordplay)

Backcountry

Backscatter

Backstabbing

Backstitch

Backstretch

""The study of bacteria, especially in relation to medicine and agriculture.""

Pl. bacteriolyses (-s z ) Dissolution or destruction of bacteria.

Rupture of some pathogens by, eg, an antibody

Pl. bacteriolyses (-s z ) Dissolution or destruction of bacteria.

A virus which infects bacteria; -- also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon.phage in laboratory jargon.

BACTERIOPHAGE a virus which infects bacteria; -- also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon.phage in laboratory jargon.

Bacteriostat

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Geopolitical term for extreme factionalism

Balletomania

""BALLISTIC Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.""

Mr. X's favorite form of trickery (wordplay)

Bankability

Certain boxers

The act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.

Baroreceptor

Any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota.

Basification

""Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.""

Stops on a Civil War tour

Bugler to stand playing in fields of war

Areas of conflict

Bearability

Beastliness

First step towards sainthood

You finally quit cosmetic enhancement? That's a great blessing!

First stage in becoming saint in Roman Catholic church

Beauteous

Beautiful

Bedazzlement

Befuddlement

BEHAVIORIST a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism.

Belatedness

(tr) to trouble persistently; harass

Capable of eliciting belief or trust. See Synonyms at plausible .

Belittlement

Bellicosity

'Not acting a piece, by the sound of it (13)'

BENEFICIATE To reduce (ores).

BENEFICIATE To reduce (ores).

Ignorance is to remain, with thing sensed imperfectly

BESTSELLER

Betweenbrain

Betweenness

... in the gaps dividing cunning devices

Bewilderment

Bibliolatry

Excessive adherence to a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Bibliopegist

Bibliopolist

""Remedies the therapeutic use of reading material in the treatment of nervous diseases. ; bibliotherapist , n . ; bibliotherapeutic ,""

Bicentenary

Bicentennial

Biconcavity

""CONDITIONAL Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise. as, a conditional promise.""

Biconvexity

BICULTURAL

Biddability

Going both ways

Functioning two ways

Bilateralism

Billingsgate

Of or pertaining to bimetallism.

Bioactivity

""The property of being biologically compatible by not producing a toxic, injurious, or immunological response in living tissue: As a result of its strength and biocompatibility, the material is often used in medical devices.""

BIOELECTRIC

Bioenergetic

Biometrician

Biophysicist

See life science .

Bioscientist

Vital statistics.

Of or pertaining to biosystematics.

Such as genetic modification

Adjective (-ic)

BIPARTISAN

Bipropellant

Bisectional

Bisexuality

Bitterbrush

Bittersweet

Gossipy types

Bean spillers

Tattletales

Blacksmith

Actions or words aiming to flatter

Persuasive flattery

Flattering inducements

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Plural or third person singular

Any of several fungal infections caused by blastomycetes; they are characterized by inflammatory lesions of skin and mucous membranes or internal organs.

BLASTULATION blastulate

Blatherskite

A basal body in certain flagellated protozoans that consists of a minute mass of chromatin embedded in the cytoplasm at the base of the flagellum.

BLOCKBUSTING blockbust

Bloodletting

Pedantic women

There's some such leggy girls at Cambridge

They go on foot with the ladies, likewise

Boatbuilding

Boddhisattva

In a pompously inflated manner

In a pompously overblown manner

BOOTSTRAP

Borosilicate

Bottlebrush

Bottleneck

Bounteous

Bountiful

""An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.""

Having short wings.

See Brailler .

BRAINSTORMER brainstorm

Engaging in groupthink (wordplay)

Producing ideas in a discussion group

Trouble-solving technique.

Those eureka moments!

Significant new treatments for hernias

BREASTSTROKE

Movements made swimming

Suitable or pleasant for breathing: breathable air.

Breathiness

Brilliantine

Brittleness

Organically sad (wordplay)

Full of sorrow

Hear Ted may be grief-stricken

""An ergot alkaloid, C 32 H 40 BrN 5 O 5 , that slows dopamine turnover and inhibits prolactin secretion and is used to treat Parkinson's disease and to retard the growth of various pituitary tumors.""

Broncobuster

State of the fraternity - rows among the monks

Care about right ancestry, sons, and the boys' friendly relationship

The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

Brutishness

BULLFIGHTING bullfight

Irritating self-assertiveness

Obtrusive state

Some obfuscating jargon

Bureaucrat

Nonelective government officials; same as bureaucracy.bureaucracy.

BUREAUCRAT An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

Goat, perhaps, identifies missing person

Careless slip, say

He can't catch for toffee!

Buttonhook

""A transparent, highly flammable liquid, C 4 H 8 O, used in synthesizing resins.""

""Any of a group of neuroleptic drugs, such as haloperidol, administered in the treatment of acute psychotic episodes, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders.""