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13-letter words containing c, r, i, n

  • astronautical — of or relating to astronautics or astronauts.
  • atomic energy — nuclear energy
  • atomic number — the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of an element
  • atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
  • auctioneering — Present participle of auctioneer.
  • audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
  • authenticator — a person or thing that authenticates.
  • auto-injector — An auto-injector is a hypodermic syringe that you can use to inject yourself with a liquid.
  • averruncation — the act of averting or turning away
  • back-breaking — Back-breaking work involves a lot of hard physical effort.
  • backformation — Alternative spelling of back-formation.
  • backgrounding — Present participle of background.
  • backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • backing track — a recorded instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
  • backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
  • bacteriogenic — Caused by bacteria.
  • bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
  • bacteriotoxin — any toxin that kills bacteria
  • bacterization — subjection to bacterial action
  • balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • bandicoot rat — any of three burrowing rats of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia, of S and SE Asia: family Muridae
  • banister back — a back of a chair or the like, usually having semicircular spindles between the top rail and the cross rail or seat.
  • bargain price — a low price
  • baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
  • baroclinicity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
  • basic fortran — (language)   A subset of Fortran.
  • bass clarinet — a clarinet with the lowest range, in the octave below the B-flat clarinet
  • batrachotoxin — a steroidal alkaloid, C31H42N2O6, found in the skin of certain Neotropical frogs (genus Phyllobates) and used on poison arrows: one of the most powerful natural neurotoxins known
  • beanbag chair — a chair like a large beanbag covered with vinyl, fabric, etc. and filled with foam pellets, as of polystyrene, that shift about to fit one's body
  • benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
  • beneficiary's — a person or group that receives benefits, profits, or advantages.
  • bib and brace — a work garment consisting of trousers and an upper front part supported by straps over the shoulders
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • binary search — (algorithm)   A search algorithm which repeatedly divides an ordered search space in half according to how the required (key) value compares with the middle element. The following pseudo-C routine performs a binary search return the index of the element of vector "thing[first..last]" equal to "target": if (target < thing[first] || target > thing[last]) return NOT_FOUND; while (first < last) { mid = (first+last)/2; /* truncate to integer */ if (target == thing[mid]) return mid; if (target < thing[mid]) last = mid-1; else first = mid+1; } if (target == thing[last]) return last; return NOT_FOUND; (2003-01-14)
  • binding screw — a screw used to secure one thing to another
  • bioconversion — the use of biological processes or materials to change organic substances into a new form, such as the conversion of waste into methane by fermentation
  • bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
  • bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
  • birectangular — having two right angles.
  • birefringence — the splitting of a light ray, generally by a crystal, into two components that travel at different velocities and are polarized at right angles to each other
  • birth control — Birth control means planning whether to have children, and using contraception to prevent having them when they are not wanted.
  • bits per inch — (unit)   (BPI) A measure of the recording density of a magnetic tape or disk.
  • black russian — a drink made from one part coffee liqueur and two parts vodka, served over ice.
  • bloodcurdling — terrifying; horrifying
  • boarding card — A boarding card is a card which a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
  • body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
  • book scorpion — any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions), esp Chelifer cancroides, which are sometimes found in old books, etc
  • booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
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