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13-letter words containing b, r, n

  • francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
  • free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
  • free on board — law: delivered by ship free of charge to buyer
  • froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
  • garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
  • garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
  • ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
  • gender bender — Informal. one, as a cross-dresser, that blurs differences between the sexes.
  • gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
  • gender-bender — Informal. one, as a cross-dresser, that blurs differences between the sexes.
  • generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
  • generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
  • genre-busting — not conforming to established patterns, styles, etc
  • gentle breeze — a wind of 8–12 miles per hour (4–5 m/sec).
  • germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • gingerbreaded — flavoured with gingerbread
  • globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
  • gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • gnu c library — (library)   (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
  • go one better — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
  • gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • good-neighbor — characterized by friendly political relations and mutual aid between countries.
  • governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
  • granary bread — bread made from Granary flour
  • grave-robbing — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
  • great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
  • great britain — an island of NW Europe, separated from the mainland by the English Channel and the North Sea: since 1707 the name has applied politically to England, Scotland, and Wales. 88,139 sq. mi. (228,280 sq. km).
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
  • guanabara bay — a deep bay in the Atlantic Ocean, on the SE coast of Brazil: site of Rio de Janeiro.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
  • hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
  • harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
  • harold burton — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
  • heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
  • heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
  • herborization — the act or process of herborizing
  • hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
  • hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
  • honest broker — a neutral person or organization that mediates disputes; an impartial mediator.
  • honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
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