13-letter words containing b, a, n, u, r
- 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.
- 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.
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carbonium ion — type of positively charged organic ion
- carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
- carburization — Impregnation or reaction with carbon, especially in the manufacture of steel.
- caribou inuit — a member of any of the Inuit peoples who formerly inhabited the Barren Lands of N Canada
- cerulean blue — a light-blue to strong greenish-blue color.
- cetane number — a measure of the quality of a diesel fuel expressed as the percentage of cetane in a mixture of cetane and 1-methylnapthalene of the same quality as the given fuel
- chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
- circumambient — surrounding
- collar button — the button used to fasten the collar down on a garment