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

  • constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
  • contributorily — In a contributory manner.
  • corruptibility — that can or might be corrupted.
  • county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
  • cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • 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.
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
  • dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
  • 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
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • frequency band — band2 (def 9).
  • haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
  • 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
  • hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
  • 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.
  • inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • 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
  • military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
  • money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • non-ambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
  • non-subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
  • obstreperously — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
  • olfactory bulb — the enlarged terminal part of each olfactory lobe from which the olfactory nerve originates.
  • 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.
  • pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • productibility — the ability to produce
  • public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
  • public inquiry — an official enquiry, usually into a serious accident or other disaster, or into planning applications. Interested parties can attend, and contribute.
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