12-letter words containing r, u, b, e, c
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- le corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- macaberesque — resembling or suggestive of the danse macabre; macabre
- magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- picture tube — a cathode-ray tube with a screen at one end on which images are reproduced.
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- prepubescent — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- presubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- protuberancy — protuberance.
- pulp chamber — the crown portion of the pulp cavity.
- purple beech — copper beech.
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- recarburizer — to add carbon to (steel), as in an open-hearth furnace, as by adding pig iron.
- reducibility — capable of being reduced.
- renounceable — of a nature that can be renounced
- reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- rubber check — a check drawn on an account lacking the funds to pay it; a check that bounces.
- rubber match — rubber2 (def 4)
- rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.
- rubbernecker — a person who rubbernecks
- rubik's cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
- rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
- saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- sea cucumber — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having a long, leathery body with tentacles around the anterior end.
- secunderabad — a city in N Andhra Pradesh, in central India, part of Hyderabad: a former British military cantonment.
- service club — any of several organizations dedicated to the growth and general welfare of its members and the community.
- sub-mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
- suberic acid — a crystalline dibasic acid, C 8 H 1 4 O 4 , obtained especially from suberin, castor oil, and cork: used chiefly in the preparation of plastics and plasticizers.