12-letter words containing r, i, b, n
- the barbican — a building complex in the City of London: includes residential developments and the Barbican Arts Centre (completed 1982) housing concert and exhibition halls, theatres, cinemas, etc
- the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
- the cambrian — the Cambrian period or rock system
- timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.
- timbromaniac — a person who is passionate about stamp-collecting
- tinea barbae — barber's itch.
- trailblazing — to blaze a trail through (a forest, wilderness, or the like) for others to follow.
- trainability — capable of being trained.
- transpirable — to occur; happen; take place.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- tribute band — A tribute band is a pop group that plays the music and copies the style of another, much more famous, pop group.
- tubocurarine — the principal active alkaloid of curare, C 38 H 44 Cl 2 N 2 O, used as a muscle relaxant, especially as an adjunct to anesthesia.
- turbellarian — belonging to the Turbellaria, a class of platyhelminths or flatworms, mostly aquatic and having cilia on the body surface.
- turbinacious — with a peaty aroma or flavour
- turbo engine — an engine containing a turbocharger
- ubangi-shari — former name of the Central African Republic.
- ubiquitarian — of or relating to the doctrine, especially as advocated by Luther, that the body of Christ is omnipresent and therefore exists in the Eucharistic bread.
- un-furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- un-ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- un-liberated — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- un-trainable — capable of being trained.
- unacquirable — to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: to acquire property.
- unattributed — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- unbefriended — having no friends or companions
- unbesmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- unbridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- uncalibrated — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- uncharitable — deficient in charity; unkind; harsh; unforgiving; censorious; merciless: an uncharitable attitude; an uncharitable neighbor.
- uncharitably — in an unkind or ungenerous manner
- uncreditable — of ignoble character
- undeliberate — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- underbearing — unassuming
- underbuilder — (in the construction trade) a person who assists in building
- undisturbing — not disturbing
- unembittered — not embittered; not having bitter feelings
- unfabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- unfilterable — not able to be filtered
- unforeboding — a prediction; portent.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- unformidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- uninebriated — to make drunk; intoxicate.
- union buster — any of a group of persons hired by a company to disperse picketers, end a strike or job action, etc., especially by violence or intimidation.
- union member — sb who belongs to a labour organization
- unobligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- unperishable — imperishable
- unprescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- unrealizable — incapable of being made actual or real, as an ideal or ambition: His dream of military glory was unrealizable.