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13-letter words containing a, b, u, r, n

  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
  • quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
  • quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
  • rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
  • random number — pseudorandom number
  • random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • republicanize — to make republican.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
  • rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
  • run batted in — a runner advanced to home for a score by a particular player at bat, as when he or she gets a hit or a walk with the bases loaded: a category important in individual offensive statistics. Abbreviation: R.B.I.
  • run on a bank — A run on a bank is a situation in which borrowers are worried that the bank will fail and they all try to withdraw money at the same time.
  • run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
  • running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
  • running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • serial number — a number, usually one of a series, assigned for identification: the serial number of an automobile engine.
  • serum albumin — Biochemistry. the principal protein of blood plasma, important in osmotic regulation of the blood and transport of metabolites.
  • shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
  • siberian ruby — a red tourmaline used as a gem: not a true ruby.
  • sinumbra lamp — an unshaded sperm-oil lamp consisting of a translucent glass globe supported on a pedestal: a form of astral lamp.
  • sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
  • south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
  • spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • square number — a number that is the square of another integer, as 1 of 1, 4 of 2, 9 of 3, etc.
  • steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • sub-librarian — an assistant or junior librarian
  • subappearance — a slight appearance
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subcontractor — Law. a person who or business that contracts to provide some service or material necessary for the performance of another's contract.
  • subdepartment — a distinct part of anything arranged in divisions; a division of a complex whole or organized system.
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
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