14-letter words containing b, u, r, s, a, e
- buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
- buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
- camera obscura — a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture
- cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
- irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- neuroblastomas — Plural form of neuroblastoma.
- or thereabouts — You add or thereabouts after a number or date to indicate that it is approximate.
- orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.