13-letter words containing a, r, t, n
- brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
- break it down — stop it
- breast cancer — cancer affecting the breasts
- breathe again — to feel relief
- 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.
- 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 to bear — to bring into operation or effect
- bring to pass — to cause to happen
- 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.
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- brutalization — to make brutal.
- buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
- bud variation — any variation in a bud due to changes in either its genetic composition or environment or both such that the resulting flower, fruit, or shoot differs from others of the same plant or species.
- buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
- burt standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- bus mastering — bus master
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- by its nature — If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
- by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
- c corporation — A C corporation is a type of corporation which is taxed on its income.
- cabinet maker — A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cabinet-maker — a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.
- cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
- cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
- cairn terrier — a small rough-haired breed of terrier originally from Scotland
- call the turn — to predict successfully
- calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
- camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
- cancellariate — the office of chancellor
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
- candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
- candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
- cantilevering — Present participle of cantilever.
- canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
- cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
- cap-and-trade — denoting a scheme which allows companies with high greenhouse gas emissions to buy an emission allowance from companies which have fewer emissions, in a bid to reduce the overall impact to the environment
- caprification — a method of pollinating the edible fig by hanging branches of caprifig flowers in edible fig trees. Parasitic wasps in the caprifig flowers transfer pollen to the edible fig flowers
- carbon credit — Carbon credits are an allowance that certain companies have, permitting them to burn a certain amount of fossil fuels.
- carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
- 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.
- carbonatation — saturation or reaction with carbon dioxide.
- carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.