13-letter words containing a, b, u, s, e
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
- counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
- crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
- cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
- culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- cybersquatter — the registration of a commercially valuable Internet domain name, as a trademark, with the intention of selling it or profiting from its use.
- danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- disambiguated — Simple past tense and past participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disambiguate.
- dishabituated — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- durable press — permanent press.
- east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- encumbrancers — Plural form of encumbrancer.
- endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
- equitableness — The state or quality of being equitable; equitability.
- excusableness — The quality of being excusable.
- false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- full of beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
- garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
- gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
- guinea-bissau — a republic on the W coast of Africa, between Guinea and Senegal: formerly a Portuguese overseas province; gained independence in 1974. 13,948 sq. mi. (36,125 sq. km). Capital: Bissau.
- gulf of gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- hothouse lamb — a lamb born in the fall or early winter, usually reared indoors, specially fed, and marketed when from 9 to 16 weeks of age.
- housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- househusbands — Plural form of househusband.
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- illustratable — Capable of being illustrated.