13-letter words containing b, a, i, r
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- proverbialize — to use in a proverbial way
- prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- rabbit warren — warren.
- rabbit's foot — the foot of a rabbit, especially the left hind foot carried as a good-luck charm.
- rabbit-killer — a rabbit punch.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
- rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
- rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- ratbite fever — either of two relapsing febrile diseases, widely distributed geographically, caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minor and transmitted by rats.
- rattlebrained — foolish; flighty; scatterbrained.
- re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
- real variable — a variable to which only real numbers are assigned as values.
- reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
- realizability — the ability of something to be realized
- reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- rebarbatively — in a rebarbative manner
- recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
- recallability — the quality of being recallable
- receivability — the fact or condition of being receivable
- recombination — any of several processes by which genetic material of different origins becomes combined. It most commonly occurs between two sets of parental chromosomes during production of germ cells
- recyclability — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
- reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
- refried beans — fried mashed beans
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- rehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
- releasability — to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go: to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
- relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- remediability — the state of being able to be remedied
- repairability — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- repeatability — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
- republicanism — republican government.
- republicanize — to make republican.
- republication — publication anew.
- resectability — the state of being resectable
- resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- retainability — to keep possession of.