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13-letter words containing a, b, e, r

  • bank examiner — a public official appointed under U.S. state or federal laws to inspect and audit the operations and accounts of banks in the examiner's jurisdiction.
  • bank transfer — a payment between two bank accounts
  • banker's bill — a banknote
  • barbados aloe — a tropical aloe, Aloe barbadensis (or A. vera), of the lily family, having clusters of yellow flowers: its juice is used medicinally.
  • barbarousness — The state or quality of being barbarous.
  • barbary sheep — aoudad
  • barber's itch — any of various fungal infections of the bearded portion of the neck and face
  • barber's pole — a sign outside a barber's shop consisting of a pole painted with red and white spiral stripes
  • barbershopper — a member of a barbershop singing group.
  • barcoo salute — a movement of the hand to brush flies away from the face
  • barefacedness — The state or quality of being barefaced.
  • bargain offer — something for sale at a low price
  • bargain price — a low price
  • baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
  • barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
  • 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.
  • barnacle code — (programming, humour)   Any piece of code (usually a static method) that has been appended to a class where it doesn't logically belong, due to a lack of anywhere else to put it.
  • barnsbreaking — noisy and exuberant activity; boisterous mischief-making
  • baron of beef — a cut of beef consisting of a double sirloin joined at the backbone
  • baroque organ — a pipe organ dating from or built to the specifications of the baroque period at the time of J. S. Bach.
  • baroreceptors — Plural form of baroreceptor.
  • 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 engine — an engine having cylinders arranged around and parallel to a shaft, which they rotate by means of the contact of their piston rods with a swash plate or cam on the shaft.
  • barrel-shaped — having the shape of a barrel
  • barrier beach — a sand ridge that rises slightly above the surface of the sea and runs roughly parallel to the shore, from which it is separated by a lagoon.
  • barrier cream — a cream used to protect the skin, esp the hands, from dirt and from the action of oils or solvents
  • barrier-nurse — to tend (infectious patients) in isolation, to prevent the spread of infection
  • barristership — the office of a barrister
  • bartholomew i — (Dimitrios Archontonis) born 1940, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1991.
  • bartlett pear — a large, juicy variety of pear
  • baryon number — the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
  • barytocalcite — a mineral, double carbonate of calcium and barium, CaCO 3 ⋅BaCO 3 , usually found in veins of lead minerals.
  • 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
  • basement-rock — the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
  • basic process — Military. basic training. a soldier or airman receiving basic training.
  • basidiospores — Plural form of basidiospore.
  • basket dinner — a group social gathering, as of church members, to which participants contribute casseroles or other dishes to share.
  • 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
  • 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
  • basso rilievo — bas-relief
  • basso-relievo — bas-relief
  • bastard amber — a color of gelatin commonly used in stage lighting, similar to light amber but having a pinkish cast.
  • bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
  • 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.
  • bat-eared fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
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