13-Letter Words Containing R

Capable of being grasped

Capable of being comprehended

APPREHENSIBLE Capable of being apprehended or conceived.

Cop's uncertainties (wordplay)

Suitably, properly

Aptly

APPROPRIATE Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

Taking without permission of the owner

Annexation

Secretary's mounting support, helping to arrest one making embezzlement

""Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. as, an appropriative act.""

Appropriator

Roughly apply a mixer to batter

More or less

Circa

APPROXIMATE Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

Fairly close estimate

It's roughly right

Rough estimate

Approaching; approximate.

Appurtenance

""AQUACULTURE the cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of agriculture, but under water.""

ARABICIZE ARABIC derived from gum arabic

Random quality

Relating to or resulting from arbitration.

Arborescence

Tree farming - rub our article (anagram)

Cultivation of trees

Arborization

Archaeology

Past master (wordplay)

His work is in ruins (wordplay)

His career is in ruins (wordplay)

Jurassic fossil bird

Extinct primitive bird

An old bird's cheaper to X-ray, surprisingly!

Canterbury or York, for example

High church office

Senior church post

Archduchess

Archegoniate

Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.

Head of large monastery

Chairman tried to convert Greek ecclesiastic

Abbot is a terribly rich fellow and terribly tired

Archipelago

The science of architecture.

Relating to building design

Of design

Bow struck the City with the first flower of building design

Architecture

Arduousness

(Of rocks) silver-bearing

One maturing at manoeuvres, revealing logic

Logical reasoning required to shift great mountain

Opinionated and terribly vague trite man

Grump's disposition

Gave in with a mutter turning stroppy

Noble classes

Numbers expert

Expert on calculating machine trait I engineered

A titchier man, I fancy, may be one who has no trouble with tots!

Collection of resources available for a purpose

Aromaticity

The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.

Arsenopyrite

Arsphenamine

A systematic description of the arteries.

Connecting an artery to a vein.

ARTHRITIC

Arthropathy

Arthroscopy

They're expressive of joints on the move

The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.

Artlessness

Possible to determine

Identifiable

The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.

ASPERGILL

ASPERGILL

Assassinator

Forceful confidence

Strong-willed behaviour being slammed as severest sin

Dogmatism

Emphatic statements

They declare they'd like to cut at what are charged

Assortative

Assuredness

""The lower layer of the earth's crust, below the lithosphere. It is estimated as from fifty to several hundred miles thick. It is less rigid than the lithosphere, but still rigid enough to transmit some transverse seismic waves.""

Astringency

Pl. astrocytomas or astrocytomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor of nervous tissue composed of astrocytes.

Like Armstrong or Glenn

Relating to the nature of stars

Asynchronism

""Formation of atheromatous deposits, especially on the innermost layer of arterial walls.""

""Formation of atheromatous deposits, especially on the innermost layer of arterial walls.""

Atrocious

Attorneyship

Attractancy

""ATTRIBUTION The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.""

In an attributive manner.

Austereness

""AUTHENTICATE To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.""

Tyrannical writer meets Italian heretic

Enforcing strict rules

Enforcing strict obedience

Commanding and self-assured

Commanding, self-confident

Vested with power or influence

Official permission

The Henry Ford story (wordplay)

Carfax report (wordplay)

One's own Life (wordplay)

""AUTOEROTIC sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

Automorphism

An image produced upon photographic film by exposure of the film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to (usually in contact with) the film.

Autorotation

Averageness

Aviculturist

Avoirdupois

Awkwardness

Axisymmetry

Azathioprine

French school-leaving exam

Higher education exam

Type of degree

Celebrate host dancing for girls in New York (wordplay)

Bachelorhood

Backcountry

BACKGROUNDER background

Background

Backscatter

Backstretch

""The study of bacteria, especially in relation to medicine and agriculture.""

Pl. bacteriolyses (-s z ) Dissolution or destruction of bacteria.

Rupture of some pathogens by, eg, an antibody

Pl. bacteriolyses (-s z ) Dissolution or destruction of bacteria.

A virus which infects bacteria; -- also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon.phage in laboratory jargon.

BACTERIOPHAGE a virus which infects bacteria; -- also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon.phage in laboratory jargon.

Bacteriostat

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Banderillero

Barbarianism

The act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.

The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.

Impudence

Baroreceptor

Basidiospore

""Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.""

Stops on a Civil War tour

Bugler to stand playing in fields of war

Areas of conflict

Bearability

Beardedness

Bearishness

BEHAVIORIST a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism.

(tr) to trouble persistently; harass

Belligerence

'Not acting a piece, by the sound of it (13)'

Beneficiary

Benzoapyrene

BESTSELLER

Betweenbrain

Bewildering

Bewilderment

Certain scholarly person

Academic press worker

Compiler of a list of books on a particular subject or by a single author

Like the study of books

Bibliolatry

Excessive adherence to a literal interpretation of the Bible.

""Remedies the therapeutic use of reading material in the treatment of nervous diseases. ; bibliotherapist , n . ; bibliotherapeutic ,""

Bicameralism

Bicentenary

BICULTURAL

Going both ways

Functioning two ways

Bilateralism

Coming-of-age story

Novel that focuses on character growth

Literary genre of "David Copperfield" or "Ender's Game"

Bimillenary

Bimolecular

""The conversion of organic materials, such as plant or animal waste, into usable products or energy sources by biological processes or agents, such as certain microorganisms.""

Naturally breaking down

Capable of decaying

Able to be broken down by bacteria

BIOELECTRIC

Bioenergetic

Bioengineer

The study of the geographic distribution of organisms.

The study of the geographic distribution of organisms.

Biometrician

Adjective (-ic)

BIPARTISAN

Bipropellant

REFRINGENCE

Bitterbrush

Bittersweet

Bizarreness

Gossipy types

Bean spillers

Tattletales

Blackguard

The conduct or language of a blackguard; rufflanism.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Blatherskite

A basal body in certain flagellated protozoans that consists of a minute mass of chromatin embedded in the cytoplasm at the base of the flagellum.

Spasmodic winking caused by the involuntary contraction of an eyelid muscle.

Like some screams (2 words)

Horrible (of a scream?)

Like some screams

Old guns

One place for overnight guests (2 words)

Pay to stay where it's wood (wordplay)

Where Sherlock Holmes lived

Boardsailing

Bonnyclabber

Bookbindery

Boorishness

BOOTSTRAP

Borosilicate

Bottlebrush

Boulevardier

English word

""An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.""

Boysenberry

BRACHYCEPHAL

Having short wings.

See Brailler .

Original ideas from hit issue

Creative products

Products of a fertile imagination (wordplay)

Brainless

BRAINSTORMER brainstorm

Engaging in groupthink (wordplay)

Producing ideas in a discussion group

Trouble-solving technique.

BRAINWASHING brainwash

Breadboard

Breadwinning

Those eureka moments!

Significant new treatments for hernias

BREASTSTROKE

Movements made swimming

Suitable or pleasant for breathing: breathable air.

Breathiness

Breechloader

Brilliantine

Brinkmanship

Diplomatic maneuvering

Brittleness

Organically sad (wordplay)

Full of sorrow

Hear Ted may be grief-stricken

""An ergot alkaloid, C 32 H 40 BrN 5 O 5 , that slows dopamine turnover and inhibits prolactin secretion and is used to treat Parkinson's disease and to retard the growth of various pituitary tumors.""

Bronchoscope

BRONCHOSCOPE