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13-letter words containing r, e, l, i

  • beverly hills — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles: famous as the home of film stars. Pop: 34 941 (2003 est)
  • bewilderingly — extremely confusing: a bewildering schedule of events.
  • bias-ply tire — a vehicle tire in which the main plies or cords run across the bead.
  • bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
  • bible-thumper — an enthusiastic or aggressive exponent of the Bible
  • bibliographer — an expert in bibliography
  • bibliothecary — a librarian
  • bibliotherapy — the use of reading as therapy
  • bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
  • big-heartedly — in a big-hearted manner
  • bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
  • bill of entry — a list of goods received at a customs house for export or import
  • bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
  • biobehavioral — of or relating to the application of biological methods and ideas to the study of behavior in an attempt to understand emotions and reactions in terms of brain and physiological function.
  • biodegradable — Something that is biodegradable breaks down or decays naturally without any special scientific treatment, and can therefore be thrown away without causing pollution.
  • bioelectrical — relating to electrical current generated by biological activity
  • birectangular — having two right angles.
  • bite your lip — If you bite your lip, you try very hard not to show the anger or distress that you are feeling.
  • bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
  • bittersweetly — in a bittersweet manner
  • black crappie — a dark, spotted crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
  • black skimmer — a black and white New World skimmer, Rynchops nigra, having a bill with a reddish-orange base.
  • blair's babes — (in Britain) the female Members of Parliament elected as part of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government in 1997
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • blaze a trail — to explore new territories, areas of knowledge, etc, in such a way that others can follow
  • blind freddie — an imaginary person representing the highest degree of incompetence (esp in the phrase Blind Freddie could see that!)
  • blister steel — steel produced from wrought iron by cementation in covered pots, having a blistered appearance because of the gases generated during the process.
  • blood blister — a blister filled with blood
  • blood profile — a diagnostic test that determines the exact numbers of each type of blood cell in a fixed quantity of blood. Abbreviation: CBC.
  • blood-profile — a diagnostic test that determines the exact numbers of each type of blood cell in a fixed quantity of blood. Abbreviation: CBC.
  • blue rockfish — a bluish-black rockfish, Sebastodes mystinus, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters of North America.
  • blue verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
  • blue whistler — blue norther.
  • boiled dinner — a meal of meat and vegetables, as of corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes, prepared by boiling.
  • boiling range — A boiling range is the temperature range involved in the distillation of oil, from the start to the time when it evaporates.
  • book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
  • book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
  • booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
  • borage family — any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.
  • border collie — a medium-sized breed of collie with a silky usually black-and-white coat: used mainly as sheepdogs
  • border police — the force in charge of policing a border
  • borlotti bean — variety of kidney bean
  • boroglyceride — any compound containing boric acid and glycerol, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • bottled fruit — fruit preserved in glass jars
  • boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
  • bowling green — A bowling green is an area of very smooth, short grass on which the game of bowls or lawn bowling is played.
  • bowling-green — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • braillewriter — a machine, similar to a typewriter, for writing texts in Braille.
  • brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
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