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13-letter words containing a, r, u, n

  • bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
  • boudoir grand — a domestic grand piano between 5 and 6 feet in length
  • 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).
  • boundary scan — The use of scan registers to capture state from device input and output pins. IEEE Standard 1149.1-1990 describes the international standard implementation (sometimes called JTAG after the Joint Test Action Group which began the standardisation work).
  • 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
  • brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
  • brain surgery — operation on the brain
  • brain truster — a member of a brain trust; an important but usually unofficial adviser.
  • 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
  • bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
  • 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.
  • brittany blue — a medium greenish blue.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • brutalization — to make brutal.
  • buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
  • 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.
  • bully-ragging — to bully; harass: to bullyrag fraternity plebs.
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • 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.
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • buridan's ass — an example intended to show the deficiency of reason. An ass standing equidistant from two identical heaps of oats starves to death because reason provides no grounds for choosing to eat one rather than the other
  • burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
  • burning glass — a convex lens for concentrating the sun's rays into a small area to produce heat or fire
  • burt standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • business card — A person's business card or their card is a small card which they give to other people, and which has their name and details of their job and company printed on it.
  • business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
  • 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.
  • cab rank rule — the rule that obliges barristers to take on any client in strict rotation
  • cabin cruiser — A cabin cruiser is a motor boat which has a cabin for people to live or sleep in.
  • cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
  • cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
  • call the turn — to predict successfully
  • candlesnuffer — an implement, or person, that extinguishes candle flames
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
  • capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
  • car insurance — financial protection against loss as a result of an automobile accident or theft
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