13-letter words containing r, a, b, i, s
- busto arsizio — a city in Lombardy, N Italy.
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- by its nature — If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
- cabin cruiser — A cabin cruiser is a motor boat which has a cabin for people to live or sleep in.
- cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
- calisaya bark — the bark of any of several tropical trees of the rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, from which quinine is extracted
- candleberries — Plural form of candleberry.
- carbolic soap — a disinfectant soap containing phenol
- 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.
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carbonisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of carbonization.
- caribbean sea — an almost landlocked sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean, bounded by the Caribbean islands, Central America, and the N coast of South America. Area: 2 718 200 sq km (1 049 500 sq miles)
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
- chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
- chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
- christmas box — a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc
- circumambages — round-about methods
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- class library — (programming) A library of reusable classes for use with an object-oriented programming system.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- constrainable — able to be constrained
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrabandist — a person who trades in contraband goods; smuggler
- contrabassist — Someone who plays the contrabass.
- crash barrier — A crash barrier is a strong low fence built along the side of a road or between the two halves of a motorway in order to prevent accidents.
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- crystal habit — the external shape of a crystal
- cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
- cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
- cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
- desirableness — The quality of being desirable.
- disagreeables — annoying things
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
- discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
- disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.