13-letter words containing b, r, i, s
- first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
- francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
- frederiksberg — a city in E Denmark: a part of Copenhagen.
- frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- games library — a type of library for video games where games (usually downloaded via the internet) can be paid for per use rather than be bought at full price
- garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
- geissler tube — a sealed glass tube with platinum connections at the ends, containing rarefied gas made luminous by an electrical discharge.
- generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
- genre-busting — not conforming to established patterns, styles, etc
- get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
- gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
- girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
- give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
- globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
- great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
- great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- hybrid system — a way of working, organizing, or doing something that is composed of elements of two separate systems
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- ibrahim pasha — 1789–1848, Egyptian general: governor of Syria 1833–40 (son of Mehemet Ali).
- illiberalness — The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
- illustratable — Capable of being illustrated.
- immarcescible — (rare) Permanent, enduring; that does not perish.
- immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
- impermissible — not permissible or allowable; unallowable.
- impermissibly — (chiefly, legal) In a way or to an extent that is not permissible.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
- in sb's favor — If someone makes a judgment in your favor, they say that you are right about something.
- in sb's honor — If something is arranged or happens in someone's honor, it is done specially to show appreciation of them.
- in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- inbetweener's — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed