14-letter words containing r, o, b, u, s
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- 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
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
- 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.
- 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.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- double deckers — (jargon) Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
- double dresser — a dresser having two long drawers across its width for most of its height.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
- double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- 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
- european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- george hw bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
- in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
- in sb's honour — If something is arranged or happens in someone's honour, it is done specially to show appreciation of them.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- lumbersomeness — the state of being lumbersome
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- nabuchodonosor — Nebuchadnezzar (def 1).
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.