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

  • 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
  • rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
  • rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
  • run batted in — a runner advanced to home for a score by a particular player at bat, as when he or she gets a hit or a walk with the bases loaded: a category important in individual offensive statistics. Abbreviation: R.B.I.
  • rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • saint bernardGreat, a mountain pass between SW Switzerland and NW Italy, in the Pennine Alps: Napoleon led his army through it in 1800; location of a hospice. 8108 feet (2470 meters) high.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
  • skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
  • sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.
  • spring binder — a loose-leaf binder in which a single, long, clamplike spring, forming the spine, holds the leaves.
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • stringer bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
  • to break wind — If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
  • turbine blade — any of a number of bladelike vanes assembled around the periphery of a turbine rotor to guide the steam or gas flow
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • unabbreviated — shortened; made briefer: The rain led to an abbreviated picnic.
  • unbowdlerized — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • undeliverable — capable of delivery.
  • underclubbing — the action of hitting with a club resulting in insufficient distance
  • undescribable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
  • undiscernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
  • undiscernible — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
  • undistributed — (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized by relatively extensive contact or constriction between the articulating organs, as the (sh) in show in contrast to the (s) in so.
  • undisturbedly — in an undisturbed manner
  • unneighboured — having no neighbour or neighbours
  • unobliterated — to blot out or render undecipherable (writing, marks, etc.); efface.
  • unpredictable — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • unpredictably — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • urban studies — the various disciplines associated with the study of urban areas, including urban planning, urban economics and urban architecture
  • waterboarding — a harsh interrogation technique in which water is poured onto the face and head of the immobilized victim so as to induce a fear of drowning.
  • windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
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