13-letter words containing b, u, c, a, r
- brussels lace — a fine lace with a raised or appliqué design
- buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
- buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
- bucket ladder — a series of buckets that move in a continuous chain, used to dredge riverbeds, etc, or to excavate land
- bullace grape — the thick-skinned musk-scented purple grape produced by this plant: used to make wine
- buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
- bureaucratese — wordy, jargon-filled, overcomplicated language considered typical of bureaucrats
- bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
- bureaucratist — a believer in bureaucracy
- bureaucratize — to administer by or transform into a bureaucracy
- burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
- business card — A person's business card or their card is a small card which they give to other people, and which has their name and details of their job and company printed on it.
- buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
- butch haircut — a short haircut for men, similar to a crew cut.
- butcher paper — heavy, moisture-resistant paper, as used for wrapping meat.
- butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
- cab rank rule — the rule that obliges barristers to take on any client in strict rotation
- cabin cruiser — A cabin cruiser is a motor boat which has a cabin for people to live or sleep in.
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carbonium ion — type of positively charged organic ion
- carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
- carburization — Impregnation or reaction with carbon, especially in the manufacture of steel.
- caribou inuit — a member of any of the Inuit peoples who formerly inhabited the Barren Lands of N Canada
- casual labour — people who are employed on a temporary, rather than a permanent or regular basis
- cause celebre — A cause célèbre is an issue, person, or criminal trial that has attracted a lot of public attention and discussion.
- cerulean blue — a light-blue to strong greenish-blue color.
- cetane number — a measure of the quality of a diesel fuel expressed as the percentage of cetane in a mixture of cetane and 1-methylnapthalene of the same quality as the given fuel
- chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
- chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
- chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
- circuit board — A circuit board is the same as a printed circuit board.
- circumambages — round-about methods
- circumambient — surrounding
- circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- collar button — the button used to fasten the collar down on a garment
- colorado ruby — a fire-red form of garnet found in Colorado and other parts of North America
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- congratulable — worthy of congratulation
- conjecturable — Able to be conjectured upon.