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13-letter words containing o, u, t, r, n

  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • benito juarez — Benito (Pablo) [be-nee-taw pah-vlaw] /bɛˈni tɔ ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1806–72, president of Mexico 1857–72.
  • bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
  • black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
  • bounty hunter — A bounty hunter is someone who tries to find or kill someone in order to get the reward that has been offered.
  • bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
  • bouquet garni — A bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs that are tied together and used in cooking to add flavour to the food.
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • brazen it out — to act in a bold way as if one need not be ashamed
  • bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • 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.
  • bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
  • bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
  • 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.
  • butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
  • by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
  • caribou inuit — a member of any of the Inuit peoples who formerly inhabited the Barren Lands of N Canada
  • carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
  • carrantuohill — a mountain in SW Republic of Ireland, in Macgillicuddy's Reeks in Kerry: the highest peak in Ireland. Height: 1041 m (3414 ft)
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
  • cauterization — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
  • center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
  • centre ground — the nominal space in the political spectrum that is neither right or left
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
  • chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
  • circumduction — the action of turning anything on its axis
  • circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
  • co-production — a film, play, television programme, etc, produced by two or more people or organizations
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
  • coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
  • collar button — the button used to fasten the collar down on a garment
  • colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
  • column vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written vertically.
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
  • communautaire — supporting the principles of the European Community (now the European Union)
  • communicators — Plural form of communicator.
  • communicatory — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
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