13-letter words containing b, o, r, e, l
- rialto bridge — a bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, liking Rialto Island with San Marco Island
- roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.
- robbe-grillet — Alain [a-lan] /aˈlɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1922–2008, French writer.
- robben island — a small island in South Africa, 11 km (7 miles) off the Cape Peninsula: formerly used by the South African government to house political prisoners
- robert fulton — Robert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat.
- rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
- rubber gloves — gloves made of rubber, worn to protect the hands while washing up, gardening, etc
- rube goldberg — having a fantastically complicated, improvised appearance: a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes.
- rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
- rum rebellion — the deposition of Governor William Bligh in 1808 by officers of the New South Wales Corps, caused by his interference in their trading activities, esp in the trafficking of rum
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
- self-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
- self-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
- snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
- solar battery — an array of solar cells, used as a source of electrical power.
- solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
- sound blaster — (hardware) The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
- southern blot — a procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific DNA sequence or gene in a mixed extract, as in testing for a mutation or a virus: DNA strands from the person or organism under study are cut with restriction enzymes, separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to special filter paper, and hybridized with a labeled DNA probe.
- spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
- spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- stone bramble — a herbaceous Eurasian rosaceous plant, Rubus saxatilis, of stony places, having white flowers and berry-like scarlet fruits (drupelets)
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- subequatorial — of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.
- sublime porte — official name of Porte.
- subperiosteal — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
- superlobbyist — someone who lobbies on behalf of another
- temporal bone — either of a pair of thick compound bones forming the part of the skull that encases the inner ear.
- temporal lobe — the lateral lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the occipital lobe.
- the noble art — boxing
- thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
- throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
- transformable — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- triboelectric — electricity generated by friction.
- triple double — a score in a basketball game of at least ten points, ten rebounds, and ten assists by a single player.
- triple-double — a score in a basketball game of at least ten points, ten rebounds, and ten assists by a single player.
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
- tuberculation — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
- umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
- un-personable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- unbowdlerized — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- unconformable — not conformable; not conforming.
- unconquerable — to acquire by force of arms; win in war: to conquer a foreign land.
- unconquerably — in an invincible manner