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13-letter words containing r, e, b, u, t, m

  • mottled umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Erannis defoliaria, whose looper larvae can strip branches and even trees
  • mount gambier — a city in S Australia.
  • mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
  • mouthbreather — a person who breathes through the mouth instead of through the nose
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • multivariable — having, involving or relying upon two or more variables, esp in statistics
  • mycobacterium — A bacterium of a group that includes the causative agents of leprosy and tuberculosis.
  • neuroblastoma — a malignant tumor of immature nerve cells that usually starts in the autonomic nervous system or adrenal gland and spreads quickly, most often affecting young children.
  • number theory — the study of integers and their relation to one another.
  • obiter dictum — an incidental or passing remark, opinion, etc.
  • octane number — (of gasoline) a designation of antiknock quality, numerically equal to the percentage of isooctane by volume in a mixture of isooctane and normal heptane that matches the given gasoline in antiknock characteristics.
  • overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • proton number — the number of positive charges or protons in the nucleus of an atom of a given element, and therefore also the number of electrons normally surrounding the nucleus. Symbol: Z. Abbreviation: at. no.;
  • re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • reimbursement — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • retributivism — a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted.
  • rosebud mouth — a mouth that resembles the unopened flower of a rose in shape
  • rubber cement — a viscous, flammable liquid consisting of unvulcanized rubber dispersed in benzene, gasoline, or the like, used chiefly as an adhesive.
  • rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
  • rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
  • rumbledethump — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • sodium borate — borax1 .
  • steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
  • street number — the number on a street of a particular building or address
  • subdepartment — a distinct part of anything arranged in divisions; a division of a complex whole or organized system.
  • subgovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • sublime porte — official name of Porte.
  • submillimeter — less than a millimeter in size: a submillimeter wave.
  • submillimetre — a microscopic division of a millimetre
  • terbium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the cerium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
  • terbium oxide — an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
  • tibeto-burman — a subfamily of Sino-Tibetan languages, including especially Tibetan and Burmese.
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • trumpet blast — the sound of a single note made by a trumpet
  • turbidimetric — from, using, or relating to a turbidimeter or turbidimetry
  • umbrella step — (in the game of giant steps) a step executed by extending one foot forward and whirling on the heel.
  • umbrella tent — a small tent with a metal frame consisting of ribs that radiate from a single supporting pole.
  • umbrella tree — an American magnolia, Magnolia tripetala, having large leaves in umbrellalike clusters.
  • uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • unproblematic — not problematic, not causing difficulties or confusion; uncomplicated
  • unsmotherable — unquenchable
  • untremblingly — not tremblingly; in an untrembling manner; without trembling
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