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13-letter words containing b, e, s, t, r, u

  • 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.
  • cybersecurity — the state of being safe from electronic crime and the measures taken to achieve this
  • cybersquatter — the registration of a commercially valuable Internet domain name, as a trademark, with the intention of selling it or profiting from its use.
  • disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
  • disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
  • distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
  • distributives — Plural form of distributive.
  • equilibristic — Of or pertaining to equilibristics.
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • geissler tube — a sealed glass tube with platinum connections at the ends, containing rarefied gas made luminous by an electrical discharge.
  • genre-busting — not conforming to established patterns, styles, etc
  • 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).
  • harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
  • 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.
  • hunter's robe — pothos.
  • illustratable — Capable of being illustrated.
  • immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
  • imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
  • inconstruable — unable to be construed
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • inobtrusively — in an unobtrusive manner
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
  • jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
  • letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
  • libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
  • libel tourist — someone who engages in libel tourism.
  • lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • measurability — capable of being measured.
  • mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
  • midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
  • misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
  • moebius strip — Möbius strip
  • 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.
  • nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
  • obstructively — In an obstructive manner.
  • obtrusiveness — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
  • overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • pleasure boat — recreational vessel
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
  • pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • proper subset — a subset that excludes at least one member of the containing set
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
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