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13-letter words containing a, s, t, r, n

  • bering strait — a strait between Alaska and Russia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean
  • binary system — a system involving only two elements, as 0 and 1 or yes and no.
  • bipartisanism — the quality of being bipartisan
  • birth parents — a child's biological parents, regardless of whether they subsequently bring up the child
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • blarney stone — a stone in Blarney Castle, in the SW Republic of Ireland, said to endow whoever kisses it with the gift of the gab and skill in flattery
  • blast furnace — A blast furnace is a large structure in which iron ore is heated under pressure so that it melts and the pure iron metal separates out and can be collected.
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • boston matrix — a two-dimensional matrix, used in planning the business strategy of a large organization, that identifies those business units in the organization that generate cash and those that use it
  • bowman's root — an eastern U.S. plant, Gillenia trifoliata, of the rose family, having terminal clusters of white flowers.
  • brain truster — a member of a brain trust; an important but usually unofficial adviser.
  • brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
  • breast cancer — cancer affecting the breasts
  • 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.
  • 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
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
  • 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.
  • carcinologist — a person who specializes in carcinology
  • carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
  • cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
  • carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • cartoon strip — A cartoon strip is a series of drawings that tells a story.
  • casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • casing string — A casing string is a series of lengths of steel pipe which are fitted together and put into a well.
  • caster action — the tendency, caused by the design of the mounting, of a wheel to turn into its plane of rotation
  • cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
  • center spread — the pair of pages facing each other at the center of a magazine or newspaper, printed and made up as a single unit.
  • central asian — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Asia
  • central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
  • central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • centre spread — the pair of two facing pages in the middle of a magazine, newspaper, etc, often illustrated
  • centricalness — the situation or quality of being centrical
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