14-letter words containing b, r, i, n, e
- running battle — When two groups of people fight a running battle, they keep attacking each other in various parts of a place.
- saber rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- saber-rattling — a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
- sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- sabre-rattling — If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out.
- sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
- san bernardino — a city in S California.
- scatterbrained — a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
- semimembranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
- semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
- serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
- serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
- shooting brake — station wagon.
- siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
- single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
- sitting member — a current member of parliament
- sleeping berth — a bunk for sleeping on on a train or boat
- slide trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
- sobersidedness — the state or quality of being solemn or sobersided
- sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
- special branch — The Special Branch is the department of the British police that is concerned with political security and deals with things such as terrorism and visits by foreign leaders.
- spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
- spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
- staggering bob — a newborn calf.
- strike benefit — money paid to strikers by a union to enable them to subsist during a strike.
- strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
- sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
- sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- subaggregation — a subtotalling
- subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
- subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
- subminiaturize — to design or manufacture (equipment, especially electronic equipment) of a greatly reduced scale.
- subversiveness — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- superincumbent — lying or resting on something else.
- sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
- terebinthinate — of, relating to, or resembling turpentine.
- terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
- threepenny bit — a twelve-sided British coin of nickel-brass, valued at three old pence, obsolete since 1971
- thrombopoietin — a hormone that induces bone marrow cells to form blood platelets.
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
- to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
- training table — a table in a dining hall, as at a college, where athletes are provided with special meals to aid their conditioning.
- trans-siberian — Russian Sibirʾ. an extensive region in the Russian Federation in N Asia, extending from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific.
- transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.
- transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.