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13-letter words containing i, b, e, r, s

  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
  • compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
  • constrainable — able to be constrained
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • core business — the business activity that is main source of a company's profits and success, usually the activity that the company was originally set up to carry out
  • crash barrier — A crash barrier is a strong low fence built along the side of a road or between the two halves of a motorway in order to prevent accidents.
  • credibilities — the quality of being believable or worthy of trust: After all those lies, his credibility was at a low ebb.
  • cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
  • crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
  • crush barrier — a barrier erected to separate sections of large crowds in order to prevent crushing
  • cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
  • cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
  • cyberfeminism — A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.
  • cyberneticist — Someone who studies cybernetics.
  • cybersecurity — the state of being safe from electronic crime and the measures taken to achieve this
  • cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
  • cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
  • designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
  • desirableness — The quality of being desirable.
  • dingleberries — Plural form of dingleberry.
  • disagreeables — annoying things
  • disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
  • disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
  • dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
  • discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
  • discreditable — bringing or liable to bring discredit.
  • discreditably — In a discreditable manner.
  • discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
  • disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
  • dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
  • disregardable — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
  • distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
  • distributives — Plural form of distributive.
  • diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
  • drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
  • east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
  • east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
  • ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
  • embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
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