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13-letter words containing b, e, a, u, t, o

  • counter table — a medieval English table having a top divided into appropriately marked spaces for various denominations of money.
  • counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
  • currant borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Ramosia tipuliformis, that bores into the stems of currants.
  • customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
  • daughterboard — a small circuit board that can be attached to the motherboard of a computer
  • deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
  • debit account — a bank account which allows you to buy goods or services with money that you have put into the account
  • desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
  • direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
  • double batten — two wooden battens screwed together for holding the edge of a drop between them.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
  • double-tailed — (of a lion) represented with two tails joined together next to the body.
  • east by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of east. Abbreviation: EbS.
  • equilibration — The formation, or maintenance, of an equilibrium.
  • equilibratory — Relating to the physical sense of balance, or equilibrium.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
  • heart trouble — cardiac condition
  • 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.
  • humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
  • 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.
  • inconstruable — unable to be construed
  • incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
  • jebel toubkal — a mountain in SW Morocco: highest peak in the Atlas Mountains. 13,671 feet (4167 meters).
  • keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
  • labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
  • labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
  • lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
  • lay about one — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • lunar orbiter — one of a series of space probes that orbited and photographed the moon in 1966 and 1967.
  • meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
  • mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
  • mount gambier — a city in S Australia.
  • mount lebanon — a town in SW Pennsylvania, SW of Pittsburgh.
  • mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
  • mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
  • mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
  • mouthbreather — a person who breathes through the mouth instead of through the nose
  • mycobacterium — A bacterium of a group that includes the causative agents of leprosy and tuberculosis.
  • neuroblastoma — a malignant tumor of immature nerve cells that usually starts in the autonomic nervous system or adrenal gland and spreads quickly, most often affecting young children.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
  • non-imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
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