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13-letter words containing b, e, s, o, u

  • bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
  • bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
  • busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
  • businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
  • buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
  • butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
  • buttress root — a tree root that extends above ground as a platelike outgrowth of the trunk supporting the tree. Buttress roots are mainly found in trees of tropical rain forests
  • by yourselves — if you are by yourselves, or all by yourselves, you are alone
  • carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
  • carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
  • carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
  • clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
  • 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.
  • concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • core business — the business activity that is main source of a company's profits and success, usually the activity that the company was originally set up to carry out
  • core subjects — three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
  • 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.
  • country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
  • creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
  • customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
  • danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
  • desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
  • double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
  • double vision — diplopia.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • doubtlessness — The property of being doubtless.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • full of beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
  • george w bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
  • globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
  • 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.
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