13-letter words containing b, y, r, u
- butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
- butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- butyl nitrite — a volatile liquid, C 4 H 9 NO 2 , the vapor of which can cause headache and vasodilation, used as an active ingredient in some household deodorizers, and misused by inhalation to prolong the sensation of orgasm.
- butyraldehyde — a colourless flammable pungent liquid used in the manufacture of resins. Formula: CH3(CH2)2CHO
- butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
- butyryl group — the univalent group C 4 H 7 O–.
- buzzard's bay — an inlet of the Atlantic, in SE Massachusetts. 30 miles (48 km) long.
- by its nature — If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
- by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
- by yourselves — if you are by yourselves, or all by yourselves, you are alone
- by-your-leave — a request for permission (esp in the phrase without so much as a by-your-leave)
- colorado ruby — a fire-red form of garnet found in Colorado and other parts of North America
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
- curly bracket — a punctuation mark { }, also used as a symbol in maths
- currency bond — a bond payable in legal tender.
- cyberbullying — Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet to frighten or upset someone, usually by sending them unpleasant messages.
- cybersecurity — the state of being safe from electronic crime and the measures taken to achieve this
- cybersquatter — the registration of a commercially valuable Internet domain name, as a trademark, with the intention of selling it or profiting from its use.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
- equilibratory — Relating to the physical sense of balance, or equilibrium.
- extrudability — the quality of being extrudable
- faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
- gnu c library — (library) (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
- guanabara bay — a deep bay in the Atlantic Ocean, on the SE coast of Brazil: site of Rio de Janeiro.
- honey buzzard — a long-tailed Old World hawk, Pernis apivorus, that feeds on the larvae of bees as well as on small rodents, reptiles, and insects.
- honourability — A state or condition or being honourable.
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- hybrid vigour — the increased size, strength, etc, of a hybrid as compared to either of its parents
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- imperturbably — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
- incorruptibly — In an incorruptible manner.
- indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
- inobtrusively — in an unobtrusive manner
- insupportably — In an insupportable manner.
- juniper berry — the berrylike cone of a juniper.
- labour supply — the total number of hours that workers are willing and able to be paid wages to work for
- marble quarry — a quarry where marble is extracted
- measurability — capable of being measured.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- money grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- money to burn — more money than one needs
- money-grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- moneygrubbers — Plural form of moneygrubber.
- moneygrubbing — Alternative spelling of money-grubbing.