14-letter words containing c, u, r, b, s
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
- countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- crucible steel — a high-quality steel made by melting wrought iron, charcoal, and other additives in a crucible
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
- cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- 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.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
- double deckers — (jargon) Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
- double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- dungeness crab — an edible crab, Cancer magister, of shallow Pacific coastal waters from northern California to Alaska.
- equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- hercules'-club — a prickly North American araliaceous shrub, Aralia spinosa, with medicinal bark and leaves
- incense burner — container in which fragrance is burned
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
- inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
- limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
- nonobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- obstructionism — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
- obstructionist — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
- orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
- oversubscribed — If something such as an event or a service is oversubscribed, too many people apply to attend the event or use the service.