13-letter words containing a, b, s, o, r
- brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
- branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
- brass foundry — a foundry that makes things from brass
- brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
- brassicaceous — belonging to the plant family Brassicaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Cruciferae.
- 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
- bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
- bring to pass — to cause to happen
- bristol board — a heavy smooth cardboard of fine quality, used for printing and drawing
- broadly based — Something that is broadly based involves many different kinds of things or people.
- broca-aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- buffalo grass — a short grass, Buchloë dactyloides, growing on the dry plains of the central US
- burglariously — in the manner of a burglar or buglary
- 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
- carbolic soap — a disinfectant soap containing phenol
- 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.
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.
- casual labour — people who are employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
- catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coaster brake — a brake on a bicycle that engages when the pedals are turned in reverse
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
- cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
- 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.
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensurable — having a common factor