14-letter words containing b, u, r, d
- rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
- scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
- scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
- shit disturber — a person who enjoys causing controversy or upsetting people
- shoulder blade — the scapula.
- shoulder board — one of a pair of narrow, stiff, cloth patches bearing an insignia of rank and worn on the shoulders by a commissioned officer.
- skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
- slash and burn — Slash and burn is a method of farming that involves clearing land by destroying and burning all the trees and plants on it, farming there for a short time, and then moving on to clear a new piece of land.
- slash-and-burn — of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade.
- sodium bromide — a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble solid, NaBr, used chiefly in photography as a developer, and in medicine as a sedative.
- sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
- spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
- statutory body — a body set up by the government to consider evidence and make judgements in some field of activity
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sugar diabetes — diabetes mellitus
- suicide bomber — A suicide bomber is a terrorist who carries out a bomb attack, knowing that he or she will be killed in the explosion.
- superabundance — exceedingly or excessively abundant; more than sufficient; excessive.
- suspender belt — garter belt.
- sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
- t distribution — Student's t distribution.
- the upper body — the part of the body above the waist
- thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
- third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
- through bridge — a bridge in which the track is carried by the lower horizontal members
- trisubstituted — pertaining to a molecule containing three substituents.
- troubleshooted — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
- turbo debugger — (programming) A source-level debugger designed for use with Borland and other compilers.
- turkey buzzard — turkey vulture.
- umbilical cord — Anatomy. a cord or funicle connecting the embryo or fetus with the placenta of the mother and transporting nourishment from the mother and wastes from the fetus.
- umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
- un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
- uncorroborated — to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
- under-building — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- undersubscribe — to subscribe for less of than is available, expected, or required: The concert series is undersubscribed and may be cancelled.
- undeterminable — capable of being determined.
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
- unreproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- unsubordinated — noting or designating a debt obligation whose holder is placed in precedence below secured and general creditors: subordinated debentures.
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- upper sideband — the frequency band above the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- urban district — a minor administrative division in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, with local self-government by a district council, but lacking the charter of a borough.