12-letter words containing r, e, s, u, b
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- instructible — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- inurbaneness — The quality of being inurbane; inurbanity.
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- le corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- lubberliness — Quality of being lubberly.
- lumbersexual — a man whose style of dress and appearance is reminiscent of the ruggedly masculine stereotype of the lumberjack, as in wearing plaid shirts and having a beard.
- macaberesque — resembling or suggestive of the danse macabre; macabre
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- mount erebus — a volcano in Antarctica, on Ross Island: discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 and named after his ship. Height: 3794 m (12 448 ft)
- murfreesboro — a city in central Tennessee: battle of Stone River (or Murfreesboro) 1862.
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- obreptitious — having the characteristics of acquiring something by deceitful means
- obstreperous — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
- post-puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.