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11-letter words containing b, r, n

  • raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
  • range table — one of a number of identical small tables that can be used together to form a single table.
  • raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
  • ration book — a book showing an individual's entitlement to certain rationed goods
  • rattlebrain — a giddy, empty-headed, talkative person.
  • real number — a rational number or the limit of a sequence of rational numbers, as opposed to a complex number.
  • recombinant — of or resulting from new combinations of genetic material: recombinant cells.
  • redhibition — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
  • refrangible — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • regenerable — to effect a complete moral reform in.
  • reichenberg — German name of Liberec.
  • reid, brian — Brian Reid
  • reinscribed — to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
  • relabelling — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
  • remembering — to recall to the mind by an act or effort of memory; think of again: I'll try to remember the exact date.
  • remembrance — a retained mental impression; memory.
  • remunerable — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
  • rent rebate — a rebate on rent given by a local government authority
  • rentability — a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
  • reprobation — disapproval, condemnation, or censure.
  • resemblance — the state or fact of resembling; similarity.
  • responsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • responsibly — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • retrainable — able to be retrained
  • retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
  • return bend — a 180° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
  • reverberant — reverberating; reechoing: the reverberant booms of cannon.
  • revibration — the act of vibrating.
  • rex begonia — a plant, Begonia rex, native to India, having wrinkled, variegated leaves and thick, hairy stems, and cultivated in many varieties.
  • rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
  • rhythm band — a collection of simple percussion instruments used especially with piano accompaniment to teach musical rhythm.
  • ribbed-knit — rib-knit (def 2).
  • ribbon copy — the original copy of a number of typewritten copies (distinguished from carbon copy).
  • ribbon worm — any of various slender, unsegmented marine worms of the phylum Nemertea, being able to contract and stretch to an extreme extent.
  • ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
  • riding boot — a knee-high boot of black or brown leather, without fastenings, forming part of a riding habit.
  • right brain — the right cerebral hemisphere of the human brain, which includes areas associated with abstraction, artistic ability, and emotional response
  • ring a bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
  • ring bearer — wedding attendant who carries ring
  • ring binder — a loose-leaf binder in which the sheets are held in by two or more rings that can be made to snap open.
  • ring nebula — a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra that has a ringlike appearance surrounding its central star.
  • river basin — the area of land drained by a river and its branches.
  • robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • robert owen — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
  • robing room — a room in a palace, court, legislature, etc, where official robes of office are put on
  • robot plane — an unmanned plane
  • rock blenny — a prickleback, Xiphister mucosus, of the Pacific coast from southern California to Alaska.
  • rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
  • roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
  • roman brick — a long, thin face brick, usually yellow-brown and having a length about eight times its thickness.
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