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12-letter words containing b, e, r, n

  • radio beacon — a radio station that sends a characteristic signal so as to enable ships or airplanes to determine their position or bearing by means of a radio compass.
  • rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
  • ragged robin — a plant, Lychnis flos-cuculi, of the pink family, having pink or white flowers with dissected petals.
  • raisin bread — dough baked with dried grapes
  • rating badge — a badge that indicates the rank and specialty of a petty officer: worn on the upper left sleeve.
  • rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
  • reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
  • reaching jib — genoa.
  • reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
  • recognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • redoublement — the act of redoubling
  • reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
  • rehabilitant — a person who is undergoing rehabilitation, especially for a physical disability.
  • remembrancer — a person who reminds another of something.
  • renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
  • renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • renounceable — of a nature that can be renounced
  • reserve bank — one of the 12 principal banks of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.
  • reset button — control that restores a default setting
  • restrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
  • retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • revenue bond — a bond issued, as by a municipal utility, to finance a specific project, the income from which will be used for repaying the bond.
  • reverse snob — a person overly proud of being one of or sympathetic to the common people, and who denigrates or shuns those of superior ability, education, social standing, etc.
  • reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
  • rhombohedron — a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
  • ribbon cable — (hardware)   A type of flat multicore cable with cores positioned side-by-side, making it quick and relatively easy to clamp an Insulation Displacement Connector (IDC) across all cores. Ribbon cables typically have grey insulation with cores on a 0.050" pitch and a red stripe marking Pin 1. They are less resilient than screened, multicore cable and are usually used inside equipment where little movement or plugging and unplugging are expected. A common use is connecting a disk drive to the motherboard in a PC.
  • ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
  • ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
  • rickenbacker — Edward Vernon ("Eddie") 1890–1973, U.S. aviator and aviation executive.
  • risk-benefit — involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved: to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.
  • robber baron — History/Historical. a noble who robbed travelers passing through his lands.
  • roller blind — a blind consisting of a length of fabric rolled around a pole and fitted to the top of a window
  • rubber plant — a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
  • rubbernecker — a person who rubbernecks
  • ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
  • russian blue — any of a breed of domestic cat, thought to have originated in Arkhangelsk, with a soft, dense, grayish-blue or silvery-blue coat and green eyes
  • sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
  • saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
  • saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
  • salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
  • san bernardo — a city in central Chile, S of Santiago.
  • sand verbena — any of several low, mostly trailing plants of the genus Abronia, of the western U.S., having showy, verbenalike flowers.
  • sandbox tree — a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.
  • scatterbrain — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
  • scribblement — a scribble
  • second birth — spiritual rebirth.
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