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16-letter words containing b, r, n

  • strike a balance — compromise
  • strike a bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • submarine chaser — a small patrol vessel, 100–200 feet (30–60 meters) long, designed for military operations against submarines.
  • subordinationism — the doctrine that the first person of the Holy Trinity is superior to the second, and the second superior to the third.
  • subsistence crop — a food plant which is grown by a farmer for consumption by himself and his family, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • substance abuser — a person who takes an excessive amount of drugs in a manner that is detrimental to health
  • substantia nigra — a deeply pigmented area of the midbrain containing dopamine-producing nerve cells.
  • substantive rank — a permanent rank in the armed services obtained by length of service, selection, etc
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • superb blue wren — a small Australian bird, Malurus cyaneus, the adult male of which has bright blue plumage
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • synthetic rubber — any of several substances similar to natural rubber in properties and uses, produced by the polymerization of an unsaturated hydrocarbon, as butylene or isoprene, or by the copolymerization of such hydrocarbons with styrene, butadiene, or the like.
  • tabernacle frame — a frame, especially of the 18th century, around a doorway, niche, etc., that suggests a small building, characteristically one with a pediment and two pilasters on a base.
  • tanimbar islands — a group of over 600 islands in E Indonesia, in the Banda Sea. About 2100 sq. mi. (5440 sq. km).
  • tarantula nebula — a huge bright emission nebula located in the S hemisphere in the Large Magellanic Cloud
  • telephone number — digits dialled to reach sb by phone
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • the barren lands — a region of tundra in N Canada, extending westwards from Hudson Bay: sparsely inhabited, chiefly by Inuit
  • the easter bunny — the rabbit that brings Easter eggs
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the foreign-born — immigrants of a country
  • the green berets — a force of the US army also known as the United States Army Special Forces. Their missions included counter-terrorism and internal defense, and the troops are trained for guerrilla warfare
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • the urban league — a civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States
  • three blind mice — nursery rhyme
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • to overabound in — to have or contain too large a quantity or number of something
  • tobacco hornworm — the larva of a hawk moth, Manduca sexta, having a hornlike structure at its posterior end and feeding on the leaves of tobacco and other plants of the nightshade family.
  • tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
  • touring bindings — specialised ski bindings with releasable locked down heels that can be used for ski touring and backcountry skiing
  • tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
  • trailing arbutus — Also called arbutus, mayflower. a creeping eastern North American plant, Epigaea repens, of the heath family, having leathery, oval leaves and terminal clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers.
  • transmissibility — capable of being transmitted.
  • transport number — that fraction of the total electric current that anions and cations carry in passing through an electrolytic solution.
  • transubstantiate — to change from one substance into another; transmute.
  • tridarn cupboard — a Welsh cupboard of the late 17th and 18th centuries, with an open, canopied upper section for display.
  • trinity brethren — the members of Trinity House
  • tungsten carbide — a very hard, black or gray compound of tungsten and carbon, used in the manufacture of cutting and abrasion tools, dies, and wear-resistant machine parts.
  • turn a blind eye — pretend not to see sth
  • turntable ladder — a power-operated extending ladder mounted on a fire engine
  • twin-carburettor — (of an engine) having two carburettors
  • umbilical hernia — a hernia of the umbilicus.
  • un-reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
  • uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
  • uncontradictable — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
  • under bare poles — (of a sailing vessel) with no sails set
  • under one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • under sb's spell — If you are under someone 's spell, you are so fascinated by them that you cannot think about anything else.
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