13-letter words containing b, r, i, s
- 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.
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.
- caribbean sea — an almost landlocked sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean, bounded by the Caribbean islands, Central America, and the N coast of South America. Area: 2 718 200 sq km (1 049 500 sq miles)
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
- chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
- chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
- christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
- circumambages — round-about methods
- circumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
- circumscribes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumscribe.
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- class library — (programming) A library of reusable classes for use with an object-oriented programming system.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- constrainable — able to be constrained
- constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
- contrabassist — Someone who plays the contrabass.
- contributions — Plural form of contribution.
- core business — the business activity that is main source of a company's profits and success, usually the activity that the company was originally set up to carry out
- corrosibility — corrodibility
- crash barrier — A crash barrier is a strong low fence built along the side of a road or between the two halves of a motorway in order to prevent accidents.
- credibilities — the quality of being believable or worthy of trust: After all those lies, his credibility was at a low ebb.
- cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
- crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- cryobiologist — A biologist who specializes in cryobiology.
- crystal habit — the external shape of a crystal
- cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
- cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
- cyberfeminism — A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.
- cyberneticist — Someone who studies cybernetics.
- cybersecurity — the state of being safe from electronic crime and the measures taken to achieve this
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
- desirableness — The quality of being desirable.