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15-letter words containing i, b, r, a

  • barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
  • barn conversion — the adaptation of a farm barn into a building serving a different use, such as a house or commercial premises
  • barry mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria: part of the Australian Alps
  • barycentrically — In a barycentric manner.
  • basic anhydride — a compound formed by removing water from a more complex compound: an oxide of a nonmetal (acid anhydride) or a metal (basic anhydride) that forms an acid or a base, respectively, when united with water.
  • basic autocoder — Early system on IBM 7070. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • basse-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: consists of the Cherbourg peninsula in the west rising to the Normandy hills in the east; mainly agricultural
  • bathurst island — an island off the coast of N Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Archipelago: present south of the North Magnetic Pole nearby. 7609 sq. mi. (19,707 sq. km).
  • bathymetrically — In a bathymetric way.
  • battery farming — the activity of using batteries for raising poultry
  • batting average — in baseball, a figure expressing the average batting efficiency of a player or team, figured by dividing the number of base hits by the number of official at-bats
  • battleship gray — a subdued bluish gray.
  • be carried away — to be moved to great or unreasoning emotion or enthusiasm
  • be raring to go — If you say that you are raring to go, you mean that you are very eager to start doing something.
  • bear animalcule — tardigrade (def 3).
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • béarnaise sauce — a creamy sauce, esp. for meat or fish, made of butter and egg yolks and flavored with wine, vinegar, shallots, and herbs
  • beat generation — members of the generation that came to maturity in the 1950s, whose rejection of the social and political systems of the West was expressed through contempt for regular work, possessions, traditional dress, etc, and espousal of anarchism, communal living, drugs, etc
  • bedtime reading — a book, magazine etc read at bedtime
  • belgian griffon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a black or reddish-brown and black coat.
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • benzal chloride — a colorless, oily liquid, C 7 H 6 Cl 2 , used chiefly in the synthesis of benzaldehyde, and in the manufacture of dyes.
  • berenice's hair — the constellation Coma Berenices
  • bernoulli trial — one of a sequence of independent experiments each of which has the same probability of success, such as successive throws of a die, the outcome of which is described by a binomial distribution
  • beside the mark — not striking the point aimed at
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • beta-adrenergic — pertaining to or involving beta receptors
  • bias (ply) tire — a motor vehicle tire having a foundation of plies of rubberized cords in a crisscross pattern of lines diagonal to the center line of the tread
  • biblia pauperum — any of the picture books illustrating Biblical events and usually containing a short text, used chiefly in the Middle Ages for purposes of religious instruction.
  • biblical hebrew — the Hebrew language used in the Old Testament. Abbreviation: BiblHeb.
  • bibliographical — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • big bang theory — In astronomy the big bang theory is a theory that suggests that the universe was created as a result of an extremely large explosion.
  • big black river — a river in N central Mississippi, flowing SW to the Mississippi River near Vicksburg. 330 miles (531 km) long.
  • big sandy creek — a river in central Colorado, flowing NE and SE to the Arkansas River near Lamar: site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. 200 miles (322 km) long.
  • bilateral trade — a system of trading between two countries in which each country attempts to balance its trade with that of the other
  • billiard parlor — poolroom (def 1).
  • binary notation — a number system having a base of two, numbers being expressed by sequences of the digits 0 and 1: used in computing, as 0 and 1 can be represented electrically as off and on
  • binomial series — an infinite series obtained by expanding a binomial raised to a power that is not a positive integer.
  • bioastronautics — the study of the effects of space flight on living organisms
  • biobibliography — a bibliography containing biographical sketches of the authors listed.
  • biostratigraphy — the examination of the ages of rock strata by using fossils
  • biot-savart law — the law that the magnetic induction near a long, straight conductor, as wire, varies inversely as the distance from the conductor and directly as the intensity of the current in the conductor.
  • bipartite graph — complete graph
  • birch partridge — ruffed grouse
  • bird of passage — If you refer to someone as a bird of passage, you mean that they are staying in a place for a short time before going to another place.
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • blackberry lily — an ornamental Chinese iridaceous plant, Belamcanda chinensis, that has red-spotted orange flowers and clusters of black seeds that resemble blackberries
  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • blank cartridge — a cartridge containing powder but no bullet: used in battle practice or as a signal
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