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13-letter words containing o, a, r

  • braggadocious — boastful
  • brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
  • brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • branch office — the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
  • brand loyalty — the tendency of consumers to continue buying a particular brand instead of trying a different one
  • branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
  • branding iron — a long-handled metal rod with a stamp at one end, used for branding livestock, especially cattle, with a registered or recognized symbol or character to indicate ownership.
  • branding-iron — an iron heated and used for branding animals, etc
  • brass foundry — a foundry that makes things from brass
  • brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
  • brassicaceous — belonging to the plant family Brassicaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Cruciferae.
  • brazen it out — to act in a bold way as if one need not be ashamed
  • brazing alloy — a solder fusing at temperatures above 1200°F (650°C).
  • break it down — stop it
  • break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
  • breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
  • breast pocket — The breast pocket of a man's coat or jacket is a pocket, usually on the inside, next to his chest.
  • breast stroke — a swimming stroke performed face down in which both arms are extended outward and sideways from a position close to the chest, while the legs engage in a frog kick
  • breaststroker — a person who swims breaststroke
  • breech-loader — a firearm that is loaded at the breech
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • breidha fjord — an inlet of Denmark Strait on the NW coast of Iceland.
  • brevirostrate — having a short beak or bill
  • bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
  • bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
  • bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
  • bring to bear — to bring into operation or effect
  • bring to pass — to cause to happen
  • bristol board — a heavy smooth cardboard of fine quality, used for printing and drawing
  • broad hatchet — a hatchet with a broad cutting edge.
  • broad-brimmed — (of a hat) having a broad brim
  • broadly based — Something that is broadly based involves many different kinds of things or people.
  • broca-aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
  • broccoli raab — a plant (Brassica rapa ruvo) of the crucifer family with close clusters of small flowers and dark green, somewhat bitter leaves cooked as a vegetable
  • broccoli rabe — a plant, Brassica rapa ruvo, of which the slightly bitter, dark-green leaves and clustered flower buds are eaten as a vegetable.
  • brokenhearted — Someone who is brokenhearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.
  • bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
  • bronchography — radiography of the bronchial tubes after the introduction of a radiopaque medium into the bronchi
  • bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
  • brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
  • brooklyn park — city in SE Minn.: suburb of Minneapolis: pop. 67,000
  • brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
  • brutalization — to make brutal.
  • bud variation — any variation in a bud due to changes in either its genetic composition or environment or both such that the resulting flower, fruit, or shoot differs from others of the same plant or species.
  • buffalo berry — a shrub (genus Shepherdia) of the oleaster family, native to W North America, with silvery leaves
  • buffalo grass — a short grass, Buchloë dactyloides, growing on the dry plains of the central US
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