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13-letter words containing r, a, n, i

  • 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
  • brinksmanship — the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, especially by creating diplomatic crises.
  • british asian — A British Asian person is someone of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi origin who has grown up in Britain.
  • british india — the 17 provinces of India formerly governed by the British under the British sovereign: ceased to exist in 1947 when the independent states of India and Pakistan were created
  • brittany blue — a medium greenish blue.
  • brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
  • brutalization — to make brutal.
  • buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
  • 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.
  • bully-ragging — to bully; harass: to bullyrag fraternity plebs.
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • buridan's ass — an example intended to show the deficiency of reason. An ass standing equidistant from two identical heaps of oats starves to death because reason provides no grounds for choosing to eat one rather than the other
  • burning glass — a convex lens for concentrating the sun's rays into a small area to produce heat or fire
  • burt standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • 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 park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
  • 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.
  • by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
  • c corporation — A C corporation is a type of corporation which is taxed on its income.
  • cabin cruiser — A cabin cruiser is a motor boat which has a cabin for people to live or sleep in.
  • cabinet maker — A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cabinet-maker — a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.
  • cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
  • cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
  • cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
  • caiman lizard — a crocodilelike lizard, Dracaena guianensis, of South America, having powerful jaws for crushing the snails and mussels upon which it feeds.
  • cairn terrier — a small rough-haired breed of terrier originally from Scotland
  • calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
  • camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
  • campaniliform — Alternative form of campaniform.
  • camping chair — a chair which is suitable for use in temporary quarters, on holiday, etc, esp by being portable and easy to set up
  • cancellariate — the office of chancellor
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
  • candid camera — a small camera that may be used to take informal photographs of people, usually without their knowledge
  • candleberries — Plural form of candleberry.
  • candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
  • candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
  • candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
  • candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
  • cantilevering — Present participle of cantilever.
  • canton ginger — preserved or crystallized ginger of fine quality.
  • cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
  • cape province — a former province of S South Africa; replaced in 1994 by the new provinces of Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and part of North-West. Capital: Cape Town
  • cape-province — a cape in S Africa, in the SW Republic of South Africa.
  • caprification — a method of pollinating the edible fig by hanging branches of caprifig flowers in edible fig trees. Parasitic wasps in the caprifig flowers transfer pollen to the edible fig flowers
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