14-letter words containing r, u, b, e, o
- deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- 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.
- do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
- double bedroom — a large bedroom
- 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 dribble — an infraction, resulting in loss of possession of the ball, occurring either when a player uses both hands simultaneously when dribbling or when a player interrupts a dribble by holding the ball momentarily in one or both hands.
- double drummer — a type of cicada
- double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- draw-out table — draw table.
- 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
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- 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
- exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- 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.
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- 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
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- homeward bound — going home
- honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
- hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
- imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
- irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
- journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
- labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- lumbersomeness — the state of being lumbersome
- marsupial bone — epipubis.