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

  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • core business — the business activity that is main source of a company's profits and success, usually the activity that the company was originally set up to carry out
  • core subjects — three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
  • counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
  • country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
  • 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
  • crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
  • cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
  • 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.
  • disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
  • encumbrancers — Plural form of encumbrancer.
  • equilibristic — Of or pertaining to equilibristics.
  • habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
  • hercules-club — Also called Southern prickly ash. a prickly tree, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, of the rue family, having a medicinal bark and berries.
  • huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
  • imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
  • inconstruable — unable to be construed
  • incurableness — The state or condition of being incurable.
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
  • letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
  • microbusiness — A business that operates on a very small scale.
  • new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
  • obstructively — In an obstructive manner.
  • oversubscribe — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
  • paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • prepubescence — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
  • short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
  • spruce beetle — a beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, that feeds on and nests in spruce, pine, and other evergreen trees, sometimes causing extensive damage.
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • sub-reference — an act or instance of referring.
  • subappearance — a slight appearance
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subcoriaceous — almost leathery
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