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

  • public library — a nonprofit library established for the use of the general public and maintained chiefly by public funds.
  • putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
  • quadrisyllabic — a word or poetic meter with four syllables
  • quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • 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
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
  • 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.
  • statutory body — a body set up by the government to consider evidence and make judgements in some field of activity
  • 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.
  • support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
  • supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
  • 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.
  • tintinnabulary — of bells or the ringing of bells
  • 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
  • uncontrollably — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
  • 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
  • untranslatably — not translatably; in an untranslatable manner; in such a way as to be untranslatable
  • 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
  • urbanistically — of or relating to urbanism.
  • urinary tubule — any of the long, winding tubules of the vertebrate kidney in which urine is formed
  • white mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
  • witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
  • yttrocolumbite — Yttrotantalite.
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