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

  • overrun brake — a brake fitted to a trailer or other towed vehicle that prevents the towed vehicle travelling faster than the towing vehicle when slowing down or descending an incline
  • paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
  • parietal bone — either of a pair of membrane bones forming, by their union at the sagittal suture, part of the sides and top of the skull.
  • parking brake — emergency brake.
  • parsons table — a square or rectangular table, often of lightweight material, with straight legs that are square in cross section and of the same thickness as the top extending from the corners flush with the top so as to appear jointless.
  • partitionable — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • peanut butter — a paste made from ground roasted peanuts, used as a spread or in cookery.
  • pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
  • pencil rubber — a piece of rubber used for erasing something written in pencil; eraser
  • pentobarbital — a barbiturate, C 1 1 H 1 7 N 2 O 3 , used as a hypnotic and as a sedative.
  • perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
  • personal best — A sports player's personal best is the highest score or fastest time that they have ever achieved.
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
  • plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
  • prepubescence — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
  • presubmission — an act or instance of submitting.
  • prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
  • private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • property bond — a bond issued by a life-assurance company, the premiums for which are invested in a property-owning fund
  • proton number — the number of positive charges or protons in the nucleus of an atom of a given element, and therefore also the number of electrons normally surrounding the nucleus. Symbol: Z. Abbreviation: at. no.;
  • prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
  • purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
  • quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
  • quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • rabbit warren — warren.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • random number — pseudorandom number
  • random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
  • rattlebrained — foolish; flighty; scatterbrained.
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
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