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13-letter words containing r, i, c

  • branch rickey — (Wesley) Branch, 1881–1965, U.S. baseball executive.
  • brassicaceous — belonging to the plant family Brassicaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Cruciferae.
  • break dancing — a style of dance engaged in by youths, involving acrobatic movements, spinning about on the head or shoulders, etc.
  • break service — to win a game in which an opponent is serving
  • break the ice — to relieve shyness or reserve, esp between strangers
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • brie (cheese) — a ripened soft, white cheese made in France, or a similar cheese made elsewhere
  • brilliant cut — a cut for gems
  • brilliant-cut — a cut intended to enhance the brilliance of a gem with the least possible sacrifice of weight, characterized by a form resembling two pyramids set base to base, truncated so as to give a broad table and a very small culet, and having from 18 to 104 facets, 58 being typical.
  • broca-aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
  • broccoli raab — a plant (Brassica rapa ruvo) of the crucifer family with close clusters of small flowers and dark green, somewhat bitter leaves cooked as a vegetable
  • broccoli rabe — a plant, Brassica rapa ruvo, of which the slightly bitter, dark-green leaves and clustered flower buds are eaten as a vegetable.
  • bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
  • bronchiolitis — a condition in which the small airways in the lungs become inflamed by a virus. It is most common in infants, who become breathless in severe cases. Recurrent attacks may lead to asthma
  • brown hickory — a North American hickory tree, Carya glabra
  • buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
  • bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
  • bureaucratist — a believer in bureaucracy
  • bureaucratize — to administer by or transform into a bureaucracy
  • 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.
  • butch haircut — a short haircut for men, similar to a crew cut.
  • butcher knife — a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.
  • butcher linen — a strong, heavy fabric made of rayon or rayon and cotton with a linen finish, constructed in plain weave.
  • butter cookie — Cookery. a plain cookie whose chief ingredients are butter, flour, and sugar.
  • by contraries — contrary to what is expected
  • byte compiler — byte-code compiler
  • 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.
  • cable railway — a railway on which individual cars are drawn along by a strong cable or metal chain operated by a stationary motor
  • cacographical — Synonym of cacographic.
  • 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.
  • caesaropapism — the theory that the state should have authority over the church in ecclesiastical matters; Erastianism
  • 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
  • calcariferous — having a spur or spurs
  • calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
  • calisaya bark — the bark of any of several tropical trees of the rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, from which quinine is extracted
  • called strike — a pitch not swung at by a batter but ruled a strike by the umpire.
  • calligraphist — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
  • calliper rule — a measuring instrument having two parallel jaws, one fixed at right angles to the end of a calibrated scale and the other sliding along it
  • calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
  • camel cricket — cave cricket.
  • camera lucida — an instrument attached to a microscope, etc to enable an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface to facilitate the sketching of the image
  • camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
  • camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
  • campaniliform — Alternative form of campaniform.
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