13-letter words containing a, u, r, n
- astronautical — of or relating to astronautics or astronauts.
- at every turn — If you say that something happens at every turn, you are emphasizing that it happens frequently or all the time, usually so that it prevents you from achieving what you want.
- atomic number — the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of an element
- atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
- attitudinizer — One who attitudinizes, or practises poses.
- attributional — of or relating to the act of attributing
- auctioneering — Present participle of auctioneer.
- audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
- aum shinrikyo — a syncretistic Japanese cult combining elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, founded by Shoko Asahara in 1986; responsible for a number of murders and in particular a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995
- australianism — the Australian national character or spirit
- australianize — (esp of a new immigrant) to adopt or cause to adopt Australian habits and attitudes; integrate into Australian society
- austrian pine — an evergreen tree, Pina nigra austriaca
- authenticator — a person or thing that authenticates.
- authorisation — Alternative spelling of authorization.
- authoritarian — If you describe a person or an organization as authoritarian, you are critical of them controlling everything rather than letting people decide things for themselves.
- authorization — an authorizing or being authorized
- auto-injector — An auto-injector is a hypodermic syringe that you can use to inject yourself with a liquid.
- autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
- autumn crocus — a liliaceous plant, Colchicum autumnale, of Europe and N Africa having pink or purplish autumn flowers
- averruncation — the act of averting or turning away
- backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
- backgrounding — Present participle of background.
- backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
- banbury tarts — small baked pastries filled with raisins, currants, etc.
- bancassurance — the selling of insurance products by a bank to its customers
- band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
- banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
- bankrupt worm — a roundworm (genus Trichostrongylus) that is an intestinal parasite of birds and mammals, especially devastating to young livestock.
- barbarousness — The state or quality of being barbarous.
- baroque organ — a pipe organ dating from or built to the specifications of the baroque period at the time of J. S. Bach.
- barosinusitis — aerosinusitis.
- barrier-nurse — to tend (infectious patients) in isolation, to prevent the spread of infection
- baryon number — the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- benito juarez — Benito (Pablo) [be-nee-taw pah-vlaw] /bɛˈni tɔ ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1806–72, president of Mexico 1857–72.
- bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- binary number — a number expressed in binary notation, as 1101.101 = 1 × 23 + 1 × 22 + 0 × 21 + 1 × 20 + 1 × 2–1 + 0 × 2–2 + 1 × 2–3 = 13 5⁄8
- binary pulsar — a pulsar in a binary system.
- birectangular — having two right angles.
- black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
- black currant — the small, round, blackish, edible fruit of a widely cultivated shrub, Ribes nigrum, of the saxifrage family.
- black russian — a drink made from one part coffee liqueur and two parts vodka, served over ice.
- 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.
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
- boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope