13-letter words containing a, n
- branch office — the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
- branch rickey — (Wesley) Branch, 1881–1965, U.S. baseball executive.
- brand loyalty — the tendency of consumers to continue buying a particular brand instead of trying a different one
- brand manager — the person responsible for the marketing of a particular brand
- branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
- branding iron — a long-handled metal rod with a stamp at one end, used for branding livestock, especially cattle, with a registered or recognized symbol or character to indicate ownership.
- branding-iron — an iron heated and used for branding animals, etc
- brandy butter — butter and sugar creamed together with brandy and served with Christmas pudding, etc
- brass foundry — a foundry that makes things from brass
- brass rubbing — A brass rubbing is a picture made by placing a piece of paper over a brass plate that has writing or a picture on it, and rubbing it with a wax crayon.
- brass-rubbing — an antiquarian's technique for copying designs from incised brass memorial slabs and the like.
- brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
- brazen it out — to act in a bold way as if one need not be ashamed
- brazilian wax — the process of removing all or almost all pubic and other hair in the pelvic area by applying hot wax.
- brazing alloy — a solder fusing at temperatures above 1200°F (650°C).
- brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
- bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
- bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
- break dancing — a style of dance engaged in by youths, involving acrobatic movements, spinning about on the head or shoulders, etc.
- break feeding — the feeding of animals on paddocks where feeding space is controlled by the frequent movement of an electric fence
- break it down — stop it
- breakableness — the quality of being breakable
- breaking ball — any pitch that breaks; specif., a curve or slider
- breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
- breast cancer — cancer affecting the breasts
- breathe again — to feel relief
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- breeding pair — a male and female animal that produce offspring together
- bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- brief against — If someone, especially a politician, briefs against another person, he or she tries to harm the other person's reputation by saying something unfavourable about them.
- brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
- brilliant cut — a cut for gems
- brilliant-cut — a cut intended to enhance the brilliance of a gem with the least possible sacrifice of weight, characterized by a form resembling two pyramids set base to base, truncated so as to give a broad table and a very small culet, and having from 18 to 104 facets, 58 being typical.
- brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
- bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
- bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
- bring to pass — to cause to happen
- brinksmanship — the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, especially by creating diplomatic crises.
- british asian — A British Asian person is someone of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi origin who has grown up in Britain.
- british india — the 17 provinces of India formerly governed by the British under the British sovereign: ceased to exist in 1947 when the independent states of India and Pakistan were created
- brittany blue — a medium greenish blue.
- brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
- bronchography — radiography of the bronchial tubes after the introduction of a radiopaque medium into the bronchi
- bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
- brooklyn park — city in SE Minn.: suburb of Minneapolis: pop. 67,000
- brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
- brutalization — to make brutal.
- buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer