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

  • new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
  • non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
  • non-reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
  • nonambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
  • nonmeasurable — capable of being measured.
  • nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
  • nonreturnable — not returnable.
  • noogoora burr — a European cocklebur, Xanthium pungens, that is poisonous to stock
  • notary public — a public officer or other person authorized to authenticate contracts, acknowledge deeds, take affidavits, protest bills of exchange, take depositions, etc.
  • novo hamburgo — a city in Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil.
  • nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
  • objurgatively — In an objurgative or reproving manner.
  • octane number — (of gasoline) a designation of antiknock quality, numerically equal to the percentage of isooctane by volume in a mixture of isooctane and normal heptane that matches the given gasoline in antiknock characteristics.
  • old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
  • onus probandi — the burden of proof.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • out of breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
  • outward bound — (in Britain) a scheme to provide adventure training for young people
  • outward-bound — headed in an outward direction, as toward foreign ports: We passed an outward-bound ship as we came into the harbor.
  • over-abundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • overexuberant — effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic; lavishly abundant: an exuberant welcome for the hero.
  • overrun brake — a brake fitted to a trailer or other towed vehicle that prevents the towed vehicle travelling faster than the towing vehicle when slowing down or descending an incline
  • paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
  • peanut butter — a paste made from ground roasted peanuts, used as a spread or in cookery.
  • perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • pleasure boat — recreational vessel
  • pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
  • 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
  • probate court — a special court with power over administration of estates of deceased persons, the probate of wills, etc.
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • 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.
  • quarter-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person with one white grandparent, especially a person of American Indian ancestry.
  • quarterbacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quarterback.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • rabble-rouser — a person who stirs up the passions or prejudices of the public, usually for his or her own interests; demagogue.
  • 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
  • ratable value — (formerly) a fixed value assigned to a property by a local authority, on the basis of which variable annual rates are charged
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
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