13-letter words containing b, u, o, e
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- have a bun on — have a bun on, Slang. to be intoxicated: Everyone at the party seemed to have a bun on.
- heart trouble — cardiac condition
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
- hothouse lamb — a lamb born in the fall or early winter, usually reared indoors, specially fed, and marketed when from 9 to 16 weeks of age.
- housebreakers — Plural form of housebreaker.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- househusbands — Plural form of househusband.
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- hummle bonnet — a cap formerly worn by Scottish soldiers
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- hunter's robe — pothos.
- i'll be bound — I am sure (something) is true
- immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
- inbounds line — one of two broken lines, parallel to the sidelines and running the length of the field, to which the ball is brought when it goes beyond the sidelines.
- incombustible — not combustible; incapable of being burned; fireproof.
- inconcludable — Impossible to conclude; unfinishable.
- inconquerable — That cannot be conquered; unconquerable.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
- incorruptible — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
- indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
- inner harbour — a part of a harbour which is further inland
- inobtrusively — in an unobtrusive manner
- insolubilized — Made insoluble.
- insolubleness — The quality or state of being insoluble.
- insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
- into the blue — into the unknown or the far distance
- jebel toubkal — a mountain in SW Morocco: highest peak in the Atlas Mountains. 13,671 feet (4167 meters).
- judgment book — the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.
- keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
- kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
- komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
- laboriousness — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
- labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- lay about one — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
- libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
- libel tourist — someone who engages in libel tourism.
- lower burrell — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- lubber's hole — (in a top on a mast) an open space through which a sailor may pass instead of climbing out on the futtock shrouds.
- lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
- lunar orbiter — one of a series of space probes that orbited and photographed the moon in 1966 and 1967.