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

  • blarney stone — a stone in Blarney Castle, in the SW Republic of Ireland, said to endow whoever kisses it with the gift of the gab and skill in flattery
  • blast furnace — A blast furnace is a large structure in which iron ore is heated under pressure so that it melts and the pure iron metal separates out and can be collected.
  • blaze a trail — to explore new territories, areas of knowledge, etc, in such a way that others can follow
  • blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
  • blepharospasm — spasm of the muscle of the eyelids, causing the eyes to shut tightly, either as a response to painful stimuli or occurring as a form of dystonia
  • block release — the release of industrial trainees from work for study at a college for several weeks
  • bloody caesar — a drink consisting of vodka, juice made from clams and tomatoes, and usually Worcester sauce and hot pepper sauce
  • blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
  • blue copperas — a salt, copper sulfate, CuSO 4 ⋅5H 2 O, occurring naturally as large transparent, deep-blue triclinic crystals, appearing in its anhydrous state as a white powder: used chiefly as a mordant, insecticide, fungicide, and in engraving.
  • blue grosbeak — a grosbeak, Guiraca caerulea, of the U.S., Mexico, and Central America, the male of which is blue with two rusty bars on each wing.
  • board measure — a system of units for measuring wood based on the board foot. 1980 board feet equal one standard
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
  • bobby dazzler — a person or thing that is outstanding or excellent.
  • bobby-dazzler — anything outstanding, striking, or showy, esp an attractive girl
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • bohr magneton — a unit that is used to indicate the magnetic moment of the electron structure in an atom, equal to 9.27 × 10 −21 erg/gauss.
  • boiling range — A boiling range is the temperature range involved in the distillation of oil, from the start to the time when it evaporates.
  • bomber jacket — A bomber jacket is a short jacket which is gathered into a band at the waist or hips.
  • 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.
  • bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
  • booby-trapped — (of a building, vehicle, etc) planted with a booby trap
  • book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
  • book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
  • boom operator — a person who operates a boom
  • 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
  • booster cable — either of a pair of electric cables having clamps at each end and used for starting the engine of a vehicle whose battery is dead.
  • bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
  • borage family — any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.
  • 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
  • border patrol — a government agency in charge of preventing terrorists, weapons, and illegal immigrants entering the country
  • border states — slave states bordering on the free states before the Civil War: Mo., Ky., Va., Md., & Del.
  • 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
  • bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
  • bottled water — water sold in bottles
  • bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
  • bounce around — to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
  • 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).
  • bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
  • bourdon gauge — a type of aneroid pressure gauge consisting of a flattened curved tube attached to a pointer that moves around a dial. As the pressure in the tube increases the tube tends to straighten and the pointer indicates the applied pressure
  • boys' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for boys, founded in 1883, with the aim of promoting discipline and self-respect
  • brace and bit — a hand tool for boring holes, consisting of a cranked handle into which a drilling bit is inserted
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
  • brachytherapy — a form of radiotherapy in which sealed sources of radioactive material are inserted temporarily into body cavities or directly into tumours
  • bracket clock — a small clock designed to be placed on a bracket or shelf.
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