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15-letter words containing b, r, a, i, n

  • probation order — an order imposed by a magistrate or judge under which an offender is sentenced to probation rather than imprisonment
  • probationership — the position of a probationer
  • probit equation — A probit equation is used to quantify the relationship between the concentration of a dangerous material and its effect on people.
  • promotion board — group that markets or advertises sth
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pyrimidine base — any of a number of similar compounds having a basic structure that is derived from pyrimidine, including cytosine, thymine, and uracil, which are constituents of nucleic acids
  • quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
  • ram-air turbine — a small air-driven turbine fitted to an aircraft to provide power in the event of a failure of the normal systems
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
  • recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
  • recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
  • reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • record-breaking — top, most successful
  • regimental band — a band made up of a military formation varying in size from a battalion to a number of battalions
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • rent-stabilized — regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.
  • restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
  • retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
  • retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • right-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position following the head, as the phrase the house of the friend of my brother; having most of the constituents on the right in a tree diagram (opposed to left-branching).
  • right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
  • riverbank grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis riparia, of eastern North America, having fragrant flowers and nearly black fruit.
  • robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • rolling bearing — any bearing in which the antifriction action depends on the rolling action of balls or rollers
  • romblon islands — a group of islands of the Philippines in the Sibuyan Sea and Tablas Strait, part of the Visayan Islands.
  • rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
  • roundaboutation — circumlocution
  • roundaboutility — roundaboutness
  • rubaiyat stanza — a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.
  • rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
  • runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
  • salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
  • scribaciousness — the quality or state of being scribacious
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
  • september rains — rainy weather during the month of September
  • sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
  • siberian squill — a bulbous, Eurasian plant, Scilla siberica, of the lily family, having nodding, deep blue flowers.
  • sibling rivalry — the feeling of competitiveness that often exists between brothers and sisters
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