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14-letter words containing b, l, u, r, i, s

  • labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
  • leibniz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
  • license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
  • military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
  • miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
  • neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
  • oblique stroke — (character)   "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
  • piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
  • putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
  • quadrisyllabic — a word or poetic meter with four syllables
  • quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
  • rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rebelliousness — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
  • serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
  • shower cubicle — a shower enclosure
  • silver jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
  • subterrestrial — underground; subterranean.
  • superimposable — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
  • terbium metals — a series of closely related rare-earth elements, including terbium, gadolinium, europium, and, sometimes, dysprosium
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
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