13-letter words containing ra
- australia day — a public holiday in Australia, commemorating the landing of the British in 1788: observed on January 26
- australianism — the Australian national character or spirit
- australianize — (esp of a new immigrant) to adopt or cause to adopt Australian habits and attitudes; integrate into Australian society
- autobiography — Your autobiography is an account of your life, which you write yourself.
- autographical — Relating to, or used in, the process of autography.
- automatograph — a device for recording involuntary bodily movements.
- autoradiogram — autoradiograph
- average speed — a scalar measure of the rate of movement of a body expressed as the distance travelled divided by the time taken
- back straight — a straight part of a circuit, esp of an athletics track or a racecourse, furthest from the finishing point
- backing track — a recorded instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
- backscratcher — an implement with a long handle, used for scratching one's back
- baedeker raid — one of the German air raids in 1942 on places of cultural and historical importance in England
- baggage train — a train of wagons carrying the equipment needed by an army on the march
- balloon frame — a wooden building frame composed of machine-sawed scantlings fastened with nails, having studs rising the full height of the frame with the joists nailed to the studs and supported by sills or by ribbons let into the studs.
- balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
- bancassurance — the selling of insurance products by a bank to its customers
- bandicoot rat — any of three burrowing rats of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia, of S and SE Asia: family Muridae
- bank transfer — a payment between two bank accounts
- barred spiral — a spiral galaxy in which the arms originate at the ends of a bar-shaped nucleus
- basic fortran — (language) A subset of Fortran.
- batrachotoxin — a steroidal alkaloid, C31H42N2O6, found in the skin of certain Neotropical frogs (genus Phyllobates) and used on poison arrows: one of the most powerful natural neurotoxins known
- battering ram — A battering ram is a long heavy piece of wood that is used to knock down the locked doors of buildings.
- battering-ram — an ancient military device with a heavy horizontal ram for battering down walls, gates, etc.
- beetlebrained — stupid
- behaviourally — from a behavioural point of view
- bench warrant — a warrant issued by a judge or court directing that an offender be apprehended
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- bering strait — a strait between Alaska and Russia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean
- bermuda grass — a widely distributed grass, Cynodon dactylon, with wiry creeping rootstocks and several purplish spikes of flowers arising from a single point: used for lawns, pasturage, binding sand dunes, etc
- best practice — Best practice is the way of running a business or providing a service that is recognized as correct or most effective.
- beverage room — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc, in which alcoholic drinks are served
- bharat natyam — a form of Indian classical ballet
- bharata natya — a traditional south Indian dance style, formerly performed only by devadasis.
- bib and brace — a work garment consisting of trousers and an upper front part supported by straps over the shoulders
- bibliographer — an expert in bibliography
- bibliographic — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
- bibliotherapy — the use of reading as therapy
- biculturalism — the characteristics, or policy, of a two-cultured society
- big gray wall — (jargon) What faces a VMS user searching for documentation. A full VMS kit comes on a pallet, the documentation taking up around 15 feet of shelf space before the addition of layered products such as compilers, databases, multi-vendor networking, and programming tools. Recent (since VMS version 5) DEC documentation comes with grey binders; under VMS version 4 the binders were orange and under version 3 they were blue. Often contracted to "Gray Wall".
- bio-autograph — an analytical technique in which organic compounds are separated by chromatography and identified by studying their effects on microorganisms.
- bioautography — an analytical technique in which organic compounds are separated by chromatography and identified by studying their effects on microorganisms.
- 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.
- biogeographer — a person who is knowledgeable about biogeography
- bitter orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- black crappie — a dark, spotted crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
- black currant — the small, round, blackish, edible fruit of a widely cultivated shrub, Ribes nigrum, of the saxifrage family.
- black tracker — an Aboriginal tracker working for the police
- bladder wrack — any of various brown algae (genera Ascophyllum and Fucus), having a flattened body and conspicuous air bladders
- blaze a trail — to explore new territories, areas of knowledge, etc, in such a way that others can follow