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13-letter words containing b, l, u, e, i

  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • pencil rubber — a piece of rubber used for erasing something written in pencil; eraser
  • perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • primum mobile — (in Ptolemaic astronomy) the outermost of the 10 concentric spheres of the universe, making a complete revolution every 24 hours and causing all the others to do likewise.
  • prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
  • public access — the availability of noncommercial television and radio broadcasting facilities to community groups or members of the public for programs of general interest to the community, especially as a condition of cable television franchises.
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • public office — position in government
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
  • purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
  • quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
  • quodlibetical — a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • republicanize — to make republican.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • rum rebellion — the deposition of Governor William Bligh in 1808 by officers of the New South Wales Corps, caused by his interference in their trading activities, esp in the trafficking of rum
  • rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
  • running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • serial number — a number, usually one of a series, assigned for identification: the serial number of an automobile engine.
  • serum albumin — Biochemistry. the principal protein of blood plasma, important in osmotic regulation of the blood and transport of metabolites.
  • silent butler — a small receptacle having a handle and a hinged lid, used for collecting the contents of ashtrays, crumbs from a dinner table, etc., for disposal.
  • silver bullet — direct or immediate solution
  • silver-bullet — a quick solution to a difficult problem.
  • sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
  • spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
  • squeezability — the quality of being capable of, or suitable for, being squeezed
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • subcollection — the act of collecting.
  • subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • subdiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
  • subequatorial — of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.
  • sublieutenant — British. a navy officer ranking next below a lieutenant.
  • sublime porte — official name of Porte.
  • subliterature — writing below the standards of literature as an art form.
  • submillimeter — less than a millimeter in size: a submillimeter wave.
  • submillimetre — a microscopic division of a millimetre
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