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14-letter words containing b, u, r, e, y

  • fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • frequency band — band2 (def 9).
  • he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • injury benefit — money paid to someone who has sustained an injury
  • innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
  • irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • kentucky derby — a horse race for three-year-olds, run annually since 1875, on the first Saturday in May, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.: the first race in the Triple Crown.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
  • liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
  • money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • obstreperously — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
  • paper mulberry — a mulberry tree, Broussonetia papyrifera, of eastern Asia, having alternate leaves that vary in size, round catkins, and orange-red fruit, grown widely as a shade tree.
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
  • putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
  • quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
  • raspberry bush — a bush on which raspberries grow
  • rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
  • roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
  • scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
  • siberian husky — one of a Siberian breed of medium-size dogs having a thick, soft coat, raised originally as sled dogs.
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • the upper body — the part of the body above the waist
  • three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • treasury bills — an obligation of the U.S. government represented by promissory notes in denominations ranging from $1000 to $1,000,000, with a maturity of about 90 days but bearing no interest, and sold periodically at a discount on the market.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turkey buzzard — turkey vulture.
  • ubv photometry — the photometric measurement of the color index of a star, using ultraviolet, blue, and visual (yellow) filters.
  • unalterability — the state or quality of not being alterable or not being able to be changed
  • undeliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
  • understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • unrecognizably — in an unrecognizable or unidentifiable manner
  • unreconcilably — in an unreconcilable manner
  • upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
  • urban clearway — a stretch of road in an urban area on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
  • urinary tubule — any of the long, winding tubules of the vertebrate kidney in which urine is formed
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