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12-letter words containing r, i, b, n

  • rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
  • ragged robin — a plant, Lychnis flos-cuculi, of the pink family, having pink or white flowers with dissected petals.
  • rainbow bird — an Australian bee-eater, Merops ornatus, with brightly coloured plumage. It feeds in flight and nests in sandy burrows
  • rainbow fish — guppy.
  • rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
  • rainbow roof — a gable roof in the form of a broad Gothic arch, with gently sloping convex surfaces.
  • raisin bread — dough baked with dried grapes
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rambus, inc. — (company)   The company which designed Rambus DRAM. Address: Mountain View, CA., USA.
  • rating badge — a badge that indicates the rank and specialty of a petty officer: worn on the upper left sleeve.
  • reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
  • reaching jib — genoa.
  • reading book — a book for people who are learning to read, to help them become accustomed to looking at and understanding written words
  • recognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
  • rehabilitant — a person who is undergoing rehabilitation, especially for a physical disability.
  • renegotiable — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
  • renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • restrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
  • retranscribe — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
  • rib-tickling — very amusing; funny or hilarious: a book of rib-tickling stories.
  • ribbon cable — (hardware)   A type of flat multicore cable with cores positioned side-by-side, making it quick and relatively easy to clamp an Insulation Displacement Connector (IDC) across all cores. Ribbon cables typically have grey insulation with cores on a 0.050" pitch and a red stripe marking Pin 1. They are less resilient than screened, multicore cable and are usually used inside equipment where little movement or plugging and unplugging are expected. A common use is connecting a disk drive to the motherboard in a PC.
  • ribbon plant — spider plant (def 1).
  • ribbon snake — either of two long-tailed garter snakes, Thamnophis proximus or T. sauritus, of eastern and central North America, having a brownish body and yellow or orange stripes.
  • ribbon strip — ribbon (def 8).
  • ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
  • rickenbacker — Edward Vernon ("Eddie") 1890–1973, U.S. aviator and aviation executive.
  • riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
  • riding habit — habit1 (def 11).
  • risk-benefit — involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved: to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.
  • robotization — the introduction of robots to carry out industrial tasks
  • rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
  • roller blind — a blind consisting of a length of fabric rolled around a pole and fitted to the top of a window
  • rolling boil — heated liquid: bubbling
  • ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
  • running back — an offensive back, as a halfback or fullback, whose principal role is advancing the ball by running with it on plays from scrimmage.
  • running bond — a brickwork bond having successive courses of overlapping stretchers.
  • russian blue — any of a breed of domestic cat, thought to have originated in Arkhangelsk, with a soft, dense, grayish-blue or silvery-blue coat and green eyes
  • ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
  • sacring bell — a small bell rung at the elevation of the Host and chalice during Mass
  • sailboarding — windsurfing.
  • saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
  • saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
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