12-letter words containing b, e, r, n
- main bearing — one of the bearings in an internal combustion engine upon which the crankshaft rotates
- maneuverable — capable of being steered or directed; easy to maneuver: The polyethylene craft remains as durable and maneuverable as any conventional high-performance kayak.
- manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
- marine borer — any mollusc or crustacean that lives usually in warm seas and destroys wood by boring into and eating it. The gribble and shipworm are the best known since they penetrate any wood in favourable water
- masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
- meker burner — a gas burner similar to the Bunsen burner but producing a hotter flame by virtue of having at its mouth a metal screen to allow a more intimate mixture of air and gas.
- melon baller — a small cooking utensil with a handle and a rounded scoop, which you insert into a melon and twist to extract a ball of flesh
- merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
- mesabi range — a range of low hills in NE Minnesota, noted for major iron-ore deposits mined by the open-pit method.
- metacinnabar — a polymorph of cinnabar, black mercuric sulfide, HgS.
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
- mixed number — a number consisting of a whole number and a fraction or decimal, as 4½ or 4.5.
- moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- monkey bread — the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- montebrasite — a mineral, lithium aluminum hydroxyl phosphate, LiAlPO 4 (OH), isomorphous with amblygonite, used as an ore of lithium.
- monterey bay — an inlet of the Pacific in W California. 26 miles (42 km) long.
- mount elbert — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range. Height: 4399 m (14 431 ft)
- mount erebus — a volcano in Antarctica, on Ross Island: discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 and named after his ship. Height: 3794 m (12 448 ft)
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- namib desert — a desert region in SW Africa, extending along the coast from SW Angola to W South Africa. 1200 miles (1930 km) long, 30–100 miles (48–160 km) wide; 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- nearer tibet — the eastern part of Tibet.
- neighborhood — the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
- neighbouring — (British, Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
- neoliberally — In a neoliberal manner.
- neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
- neoytterbium — ytterbium.
- neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- neutron bomb — a nuclear bomb designed to release radiation consisting mainly of neutrons, thus causing extensive loss of life but relatively little damage to buildings and property and only brief radioactive contamination.
- new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
- new hebrides — former name of Vanuatu.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- nigger brown — a dark brown colour
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- nitrobenzene — a pale yellow, toxic, water-soluble liquid, C 6 H 5 NO 2 , produced by nitrating benzene with nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of aniline.
- nobel prizes — any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace; an annual award in economics was established in 1969 from private funds.
- non-arguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.
- non-credible — capable of being believed; believable: a credible statement.
- non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- non-erasable — to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- non-operable — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).