13-letter words containing b, t, r
- counter table — a medieval English table having a top divided into appropriately marked spaces for various denominations of money.
- counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
- counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
- counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
- counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
- country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
- coventry bell — a perennial garden plant, Campanula trachelium, of Eurasia, having coarsely toothed leaves and bluish-purple flowers.
- credibilities — the quality of being believable or worthy of trust: After all those lies, his credibility was at a low ebb.
- credit bureau — an agency that is a clearinghouse for information on the credit rating of individuals or firms
- creditability — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
- cremorne bolt — (on a French window or the like) a pair of rods, moved by a knob mechanism, sliding into sockets in the head and sill of the opening to provide a secure fastening.
- creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
- cricket table — a three-legged table of the Jacobean period.
- cross the bar — to die
- cross-buttock — a wrestling throw in which the hips are used as a fulcrum to throw an opponent
- crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
- cryobiologist — A biologist who specializes in cryobiology.
- crystal habit — the external shape of a crystal
- cucumber root — Indian cucumber root.
- cucumber tree — any of several American trees or shrubs of the genus Magnolia, esp M. acuminata, of E and central North America, having cup-shaped greenish flowers and cucumber-shaped fruits
- cucurbit wilt — a disease of cucumbers and other plants of the gourd family, characterized by wilted leaves, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia tracheiphila.
- curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
- currant borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Ramosia tipuliformis, that bores into the stems of currants.
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- cutter number — a code combining decimal numbers with letters from an author's surname, used in an alphabetizing system.
- cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- cyanobacteria — a group of photosynthetic bacteria (phylum Cyanobacteria) containing a blue photosynthetic pigment
- cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
- cybernetician — an expert in cybernetics
- cyberneticist — Someone who studies cybernetics.
- cybersecurity — the state of being safe from electronic crime and the measures taken to achieve this
- cybersquatter — the registration of a commercially valuable Internet domain name, as a trademark, with the intention of selling it or profiting from its use.
- cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
- 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.
- cyberthriller — A thriller whose plot hinges on cyberspace.
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
- death chamber — a room in which someone has died
- deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
- debt of honor — a gambling debt: not legally enforceable
- decarbonating — Present participle of decarbonate.
- decarbonation — to remove carbon dioxide from.
- decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
- decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
- decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
- decerebration — Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
- defibrillated — Simple past tense and past participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.