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13-letter words containing a, b, i, n, t, r

  • post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
  • prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
  • private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
  • pro-abolition — the act of abolishing: the abolition of war.
  • quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
  • rabbit warren — warren.
  • rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
  • rattlebrained — foolish; flighty; scatterbrained.
  • re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
  • reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
  • recombination — any of several processes by which genetic material of different origins becomes combined. It most commonly occurs between two sets of parental chromosomes during production of germ cells
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • republication — publication anew.
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • retainability — to keep possession of.
  • reverberation — a reechoed sound.
  • riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
  • right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
  • robot dancing — a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements
  • run batted in — a runner advanced to home for a score by a particular player at bat, as when he or she gets a hit or a walk with the bases loaded: a category important in individual offensive statistics. Abbreviation: R.B.I.
  • saint bernard — Great, a mountain pass between SW Switzerland and NW Italy, in the Pennine Alps: Napoleon led his army through it in 1800; location of a hospice. 8108 feet (2470 meters) high.
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
  • sanitary belt — a narrow belt, usually of elastic, for holding a sanitary napkin in place.
  • silent barter — dumb barter.
  • sinterability — the capacity to be sintered
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
  • sorbitization — the act of sorbitizing
  • south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • station break — an interval between or during programs for identifying the station, making announcements, etc.
  • steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
  • stringer bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • subordination — the act of placing in a lower rank or position: The refusal to allow women to be educated was part of society's subordination of women to men.
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subsaturation — the act or process of saturating.
  • subtriangular — almost triangular;not quite triangular
  • table-rapping — the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living
  • table-turning — the movement of a table attributed by spiritualists to the power of spirits working through a group of persons placing their hands or fingers on the table top
  • the caribbean — the states and islands of the Caribbean Sea, including the West Indies, when considered as a geopolitical region
  • third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
  • thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • tibeto-burman — a subfamily of Sino-Tibetan languages, including especially Tibetan and Burmese.
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