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

  • bronze medal — A bronze medal is a medal made of bronze or bronze-coloured metal that is given as a prize to the person who comes third in a competition, especially a sports contest.
  • brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
  • brown bagger — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown butter — beurre noir.
  • brown canker — a fungous disease of roses, characterized by leaf and flower lesions, stem cankers surrounded by a reddish-purple border, and dieback.
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • browser skin — a changeable decorative background for a browser
  • brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
  • bubble under — to remain just beneath a particular level
  • buccaneering — If you describe someone as buccaneering, you mean that they enjoy being involved in risky or even dishonest activities, especially in order to make money.
  • buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
  • buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
  • buckler fern — any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris, such as D. dilatata (broad buckler fern): family Polypodiaceae
  • buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
  • buenos aires — the capital of Argentina, a major port and industrial city on the Río de la Plata estuary: became capital in 1880; university (1821). Pop: 13 349 000 (2005 est)
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
  • bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
  • burner phone — a disposable cell phone with prepaid service, often used with the intent to temporarily obscure the true identity or contact information of the user: Members of the cartel used burner phones to evade federal surveillance. I always give out the number from my burner phone when I’m going on a blind date.
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
  • butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
  • butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
  • buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
  • buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
  • by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
  • calabar bean — the dark brown very poisonous seed of a leguminous woody climbing plant, Physostigma venenosum, of tropical Africa, used as a source of the drug physostigmine
  • cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
  • canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
  • carbocholine — carbachol.
  • carbon cycle — the circulation of carbon between living organisms and their surroundings. Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is synthesized by plants into plant tissue, which is ingested and metabolized by animals and converted to carbon dioxide again during respiration and decay
  • carbon fiber — a very strong, lightweight synthetic fiber used in protective clothing, spacecraft components, racing shells, etc.
  • carbon fibre — a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods
  • carbon paper — Carbon paper is thin paper with a dark substance on one side. You use it to make copies of letters, bills, and other papers.
  • carbon steel — steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
  • carbonatites — Plural form of carbonatite.
  • carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
  • carrick bend — type of knot
  • cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
  • celebrations — Plural form of celebration.
  • celibatarian — inclined towards or characterized by celibacy
  • centerboards — Plural form of centerboard.
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