15-letter words containing b, u, t, s, r
- southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
- strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
- sub-corporation — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
- sub-distributor — a person or thing that distributes.
- subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
- subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
- subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
- suborganization — an organization within a larger organization
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
- substitutionary — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
- subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- suburbanization — to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- superbureaucrat — an important or highly powerful bureaucrat
- suppressibility — the capacity to be suppressed
- surabaya strait — a narrow strait in Indonesia, separating E Java and Madura Island
- svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
- tailor's bunion — a bunionlike enlargement of the joint of the little toe, usually caused by pressure from tight shoes.
- tararua biscuit — a tramper's home-made biscuit with a high calorie content
- to do your best — If you do your best or try your best to do something, you try as hard as you can to do it, or do it as well as you can.
- transubstantial — to change from one substance into another; transmute.
- troubled waters — a confused or chaotic state of affairs: The situation was terrible, but like many politicians he was attracted by troubled waters.
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- tuberculin test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to a given quantity of tuberculin indicates a past or present infection.
- tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
- turbinate bones — the thin scroll-shaped bones situated on the walls of the nasal passages
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
- turn the tables — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
- ultraliberalism — a belief in or support for an extremely liberal political party or doctrine
- unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
- unascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- unconstrainable — unable to be confined
- uncontrollables — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
- unobtrusiveness — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- untransmissible — intransmissible
- utter barrister — a barrister belonging to the outer bar.
- vulnerabilities — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
- water-based mud — Water-based mud is a type of drilling mud consisting mainly of water, which has additives to modify it and make it more effective.