13-letter words containing b, e, s, t, r
- breast stroke — a swimming stroke performed face down in which both arms are extended outward and sideways from a position close to the chest, while the legs engage in a frog kick
- breast timber — wale1 (def 5).
- breast-timber — a streak, stripe, or ridge produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip; welt.
- breaststroker — a person who swims breaststroke
- breeches part — a male role played by an actress.
- brest litovsk — former name (until 1921) of Brest.
- bretton woods — resort in the White Mountains, N.H.: site of a United Nations monetary conference (1944) at which the International Monetary Fund was established
- brevirostrate — having a short beak or bill
- brief against — If someone, especially a politician, briefs against another person, he or she tries to harm the other person's reputation by saying something unfavourable about them.
- bristle brush — a brush made with animal bristles
- bristle-grass — any of various grasses of the genus Setaria, such as S. viridis, having a bristly inflorescence
- british isles — a group of islands in W Europe, consisting of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Orkney, Shetland, the Channel Islands belonging to Great Britain, and the islands adjacent to these
- british white — a British breed of medium-sized white cattle with black points, bred mainly for meat
- bromo-seltzer — a compound containing a bromide, sodium bicarbonate, etc., used for relief from headaches and upset stomachs, and as a sedative
- bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
- buffet supper — supper at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- bunker buster — a laser-guided bomb designed to penetrate deep underground, as into rock or concrete, before detonating.
- bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
- bureaucratese — wordy, jargon-filled, overcomplicated language considered typical of bureaucrats
- bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
- bureaucratist — a believer in bureaucracy
- bus mastering — bus master
- business trip — a journey made somewhere and back again for business purposes in one's working capacity
- buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
- butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
- butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
- butler's tray — a tray resting on or attached to an X-shaped, often folding stand, on which are kept drink bottles and glasses
- butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- buttress root — a tree root that extends above ground as a platelike outgrowth of the trunk supporting the tree. Buttress roots are mainly found in trees of tropical rain forests
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- by its nature — If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
- cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
- calabash tree — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- car boot sale — A car boot sale is a sale where people sell things they own and do not want from a little stall or from the back of their car.
- carbohydrates — foods which contain carbohydrate
- carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
- catcher's box — box1 (def 16d).
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes