13-letter words containing b, u, r, a, n
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- congratulable — worthy of congratulation
- conjecturable — Able to be conjectured upon.
- contributable — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- counter table — a medieval English table having a top divided into appropriately marked spaces for various denominations of money.
- counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
- curb exchange — American Stock Exchange.
- currant borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Ramosia tipuliformis, that bores into the stems of currants.
- cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
- deattribution — a switch in the attribution of a work of art to another artist, usually a lesser one.
- decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
- dinoturbation — the effect or process of trampling and major disturbance to sedimentary rock layers caused by the movement of dinosaurs
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
- encourageable — Able to be encouraged; suggestible.
- encumbrancers — Plural form of encumbrancer.
- endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
- equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
- equilibration — The formation, or maintenance, of an equilibrium.
- fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
- funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
- garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
- gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- gnu c library — (library) (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
- gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
- groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
- guanabara bay — a deep bay in the Atlantic Ocean, on the SE coast of Brazil: site of Rio de Janeiro.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
- harold burton — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
- 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.
- honourability — A state or condition or being honourable.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- 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.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- inconquerable — That cannot be conquered; unconquerable.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
- incurableness — The state or condition of being incurable.
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- inner harbour — a part of a harbour which is further inland
- insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.