13-letter words containing a, b, s, o, r, t
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- breast pocket — The breast pocket of a man's coat or jacket is a pocket, usually on the inside, next to his chest.
- breast stroke — a swimming stroke performed face down in which both arms are extended outward and sideways from a position close to the chest, while the legs engage in a frog kick
- breaststroker — a person who swims breaststroke
- brevirostrate — having a short beak or bill
- bring to pass — to cause to happen
- bristol board — a heavy smooth cardboard of fine quality, used for printing and drawing
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
- busto arsizio — a city in Lombardy, N Italy.
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- car boot sale — A car boot sale is a sale where people sell things they own and do not want from a little stall or from the back of their car.
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.
- catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- collaborators — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- constrainable — able to be constrained
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
- contrabassist — Someone who plays the contrabass.
- contrabassoon — the largest instrument in the oboe family, pitched an octave below the bassoon; double bassoon
- controllables — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
- cross the bar — to die
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
- easter bonnet — an especially pretty or fancy hat designed for a woman to wear to church on Easter Sunday or, especially, in an Easter parade
- erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
- exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.