13-letter words containing i, b, e
- brief against — If someone, especially a politician, briefs against another person, he or she tries to harm the other person's reputation by saying something unfavourable about them.
- brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
- bring home to — to convince of
- bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
- bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
- bristle brush — a brush made with animal bristles
- bristle-grass — any of various grasses of the genus Setaria, such as S. viridis, having a bristly inflorescence
- british isles — a group of islands in W Europe, consisting of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Orkney, Shetland, the Channel Islands belonging to Great Britain, and the islands adjacent to these
- british white — a British breed of medium-sized white cattle with black points, bred mainly for meat
- brittany blue — a medium greenish blue.
- broad-brimmed — (of a hat) having a broad brim
- broccoli rabe — a plant, Brassica rapa ruvo, of which the slightly bitter, dark-green leaves and clustered flower buds are eaten as a vegetable.
- broiler house — a building in which broiler chickens are reared in confined conditions
- broken-winded — suffering from heaves
- bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
- bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
- brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
- buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
- budget period — the time which a budget covers
- bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
- buffing wheel — a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing
- build bridges — to promote reconciliation or cooperation between hostile groups or people
- building line — the boundary line along a street beyond which buildings must not project
- building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
- bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- bullhead rail — a rail having a cross section with a bulbous top and bottom, the top being larger
- bumblebeefish — any of several gobies of the genus Brachygobius, inhabiting waters of the Malay Archipelago and having brown and yellow bands on the body that resemble the markings of a bumblebee.
- bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
- buprenorphine — an opiate used medicinally as a powerful analgesic
- bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
- bureaucratist — a believer in bureaucracy
- bureaucratize — to administer by or transform into a bureaucracy
- bus mastering — bus master
- bush sickness — an animal disease caused by a cobalt deficiency in old bush country
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- 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.
- business case — a briefcase or attaché case.
- business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
- business plan — A business plan is a detailed plan for setting up or developing a business, especially one that is written in order to borrow money.
- business suit — a formal suit suitable for wearing to work
- business trip — a journey made somewhere and back again for business purposes in one's working capacity
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- butcher knife — a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.
- butcher linen — a strong, heavy fabric made of rayon or rayon and cotton with a linen finish, constructed in plain weave.
- butter cookie — Cookery. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.
- butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae