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13-letter words containing c, u, b, e, s

  • insusceptible — not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of or to): insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection.
  • jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
  • letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
  • mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
  • microbusiness — A business that operates on a very small scale.
  • new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nonconsumable — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
  • nonsubjective — Not subjective.
  • object clause — the clause that acts as the object of a verb
  • obstructively — In an obstructive manner.
  • oversubscribe — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
  • pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  • paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
  • postpubescent — a young person in his or her early teens.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • prepubescence — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
  • public access — the availability of noncommercial television and radio broadcasting facilities to community groups or members of the public for programs of general interest to the community, especially as a condition of cable television franchises.
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • pubococcygeus — a muscle that stretches backward from the pubes toward the coccyx and forms part of the pelvic floor. Abbreviation: PC.
  • queen's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • satanic abuse — sexual abuse (esp of children), killing, or violent acts considered to be carried out as part of satanic worship rituals
  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
  • short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
  • skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
  • speech bubble — cartoon: spoken text in a balloon
  • spruce beetle — a beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, that feeds on and nests in spruce, pine, and other evergreen trees, sometimes causing extensive damage.
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • sub-component — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • sub-reference — an act or instance of referring.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
  • subappearance — a slight appearance
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subcollection — the act of collecting.
  • subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
  • subconcession — the act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument: He made no concession to caution.
  • subconscience — an inhibiting sense of what is prudent: I'd eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me.
  • subcoriaceous — almost leathery
  • subdiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
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