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

  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • commuter belt — A commuter belt is the area surrounding a large city, where many people who work in the city live.
  • computerphobe — a person with a strong fear or dislike of computers
  • concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • conjecturable — Able to be conjectured upon.
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • contributable — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • contribute to — to have a share in bringing about (a result); be partly responsible for
  • core subjects — three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
  • counter table — a medieval English table having a top divided into appropriately marked spaces for various denominations of money.
  • counterbidder — a person or organization that makes a bid in opposition to another bid
  • counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
  • counterboring — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
  • counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
  • country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
  • credit bureau — an agency that is a clearinghouse for information on the credit rating of individuals or firms
  • 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
  • crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
  • cucumber root — Indian cucumber root.
  • cucumber tree — any of several American trees or shrubs of the genus Magnolia, esp M. acuminata, of E and central North America, having cup-shaped greenish flowers and cucumber-shaped fruits
  • curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
  • 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.
  • cutter number — a code combining decimal numbers with letters from an author's surname, used in an alphabetizing system.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • deutocerebrum — (zoology) The median lobes of the brain of an insect.
  • direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
  • 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.
  • drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
  • dumb terminal — (hardware)   A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
  • electric blue — Something that is electric blue is very bright blue in colour.
  • electron tube — (electronics)   (Or tube, vacuum tube, UK: valve, electron valve, thermionic valve, firebottle, glassfet) An electronic component consisting of a space exhausted of gas to such an extent that electrons may move about freely, and two or more electrodes with external connections. Nearly all tubes are of the thermionic type where one electrode, called the cathode, is heated, and electrons are emitted from its surface with a small energy (typically a Volt or less). A second electrode, called the anode (plate) will attract the electrons when it is positive with respect to the cathode, allowing current in one direction but not the other. In types which are used for amplification of signals, additional electrodes, called grids, beam-forming electrodes, focussing electrodes and so on according to their purpose, are introduced between cathode and plate and modify the flow of electrons by electrostatic attraction or (usually) repulsion. A voltage change on a grid can control a substantially greater change in that between cathode and anode. Unlike semiconductors, except perhaps for FETs, the movement of electrons is simply a function of electrostatic field within the active region of the tube, and as a consequence of the very low mass of the electron, the currents can be changed quickly. Moreover, there is no limit to the current density in the space, and the electrodes which do dissapate power are usually metal and can be cooled with forced air, water, or other refrigerants. Today these features cause tubes to be the active device of choice when the signals to be amplified are a power levels of more than about 500 watts. The first electronic digital computers used hundreds of vacuum tubes as their active components which, given the reliability of these devices, meant the computers needed frequent repairs to keep them operating. The chief causes of unreliability are the heater used to heat the cathode and the connector into which the tube was plugged. Vacuum tube manufacturers in the US are nearly a thing of the past, with the exception of the special purpose types used in broadcast and image sensing and displays. Eimac, GE, RCA, and the like would probably refer to specific types such as "Beam Power Tetrode" and the like, and rarely use the generic terms. The cathode ray tube is a special purpose type based on these principles which is used for the visual display in television and computers. X-ray tubes are diodes (two element tubes) used at high voltage; a tungsten anode emits the energetic photons when the energetic electrons hit it. Magnetrons use magnetic fields to constrain the electrons; they provide very simple, high power, ultra-high frequency signals for radar, microwave ovens, and the like. Klystrons amplify signals at high power and microwave frequencies.
  • enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
  • equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
  • equilibration — The formation, or maintenance, of an equilibrium.
  • equilibratory — Relating to the physical sense of balance, or equilibrium.
  • equilibristic — Of or pertaining to equilibristics.
  • extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
  • fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
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