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14-letter words containing b, i, u, r, e, t

  • cigarette butt — A cigarette butt or a cigarette end is the part of a cigarette that you throw away when you have finished smoking it.
  • circumambulate — to walk around (something)
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
  • computerphobic — a computerphobe
  • conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • crucible steel — a high-quality steel made by melting wrought iron, charcoal, and other additives in a crucible
  • cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
  • cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
  • discharge tube — gas tube.
  • disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
  • distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • harriet tubmanHarriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • injury benefit — money paid to someone who has sustained an injury
  • innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
  • insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
  • intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
  • irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
  • irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
  • irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
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