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

  • banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
  • bandicoot rat — any of three burrowing rats of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia, of S and SE Asia: family Muridae
  • bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
  • banister back — a back of a chair or the like, usually having semicircular spindles between the top rail and the cross rail or seat.
  • bank examiner — a public official appointed under U.S. state or federal laws to inspect and audit the operations and accounts of banks in the examiner's jurisdiction.
  • bank transfer — a payment between two bank accounts
  • banker's bill — a banknote
  • 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.
  • bar-and-grill — a place where food and alcoholic drinks are served to customers; a combined barroom and grillroom.
  • barbarousness — The state or quality of being barbarous.
  • barefacedness — The state or quality of being barefaced.
  • bargain offer — something for sale at a low price
  • bargain price — a low price
  • baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
  • barnacle code — (programming, humour)   Any piece of code (usually a static method) that has been appended to a class where it doesn't logically belong, due to a lack of anywhere else to put it.
  • barnsbreaking — noisy and exuberant activity; boisterous mischief-making
  • barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
  • baroclinicity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
  • baron of beef — a cut of beef consisting of a double sirloin joined at the backbone
  • baronial hall — a large building or room owned by a baron
  • 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.
  • barrel engine — an engine having cylinders arranged around and parallel to a shaft, which they rotate by means of the contact of their piston rods with a swash plate or cam on the shaft.
  • barrier-nurse — to tend (infectious patients) in isolation, to prevent the spread of infection
  • bartholinitis — Inflammation of Bartholin's cyst.
  • baryon number — the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
  • basement-rock — the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
  • basic fortran — (language)   A subset of Fortran.
  • basket dinner — a group social gathering, as of church members, to which participants contribute casseroles or other dishes to share.
  • basking shark — a very large plankton-eating shark, Cetorhinus maximus, often floating at the sea surface: family Cetorhinidae
  • bass clarinet — a clarinet with the lowest range, in the octave below the B-flat clarinet
  • bass response — the response of an audio reproduction system or component to low frequencies
  • bass trombone — the lower-pitched of the two main types of trombone
  • bass-baritone — a singer or voice in the bass range with baritone qualities
  • bastard eigne — the first-born illegitimate son of parents whose second son was legitimate.
  • baton twirler — someone who twirls a baton, esp a drum major or majorette
  • batrachotoxin — a steroidal alkaloid, C31H42N2O6, found in the skin of certain Neotropical frogs (genus Phyllobates) and used on poison arrows: one of the most powerful natural neurotoxins known
  • battering ram — A battering ram is a long heavy piece of wood that is used to knock down the locked doors of buildings.
  • battering-ram — an ancient military device with a heavy horizontal ram for battering down walls, gates, etc.
  • batting order — the sequence in which hitters will bat in a given game, determined in advance by the team manager.
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • bazillionaire — (humorous) An incredibly rich person.
  • be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
  • bead and reel — a convex molding having the form of elongated beads alternating with disks placed edge-on, or with spherical beads, or with both.
  • beanbag chair — a chair like a large beanbag covered with vinyl, fabric, etc. and filled with foam pellets, as of polystyrene, that shift about to fit one's body
  • bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
  • bearing sword — a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.
  • bed and board — sleeping accommodation and meals
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