12-letter words containing r, u, b, i, c
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- contributary — contributory
- contributers — Misspelling of contributors.
- contributing — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contribution — If you make a contribution to something, you do something to help make it successful or to produce it.
- contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contributors — Plural form of contributor.
- contributory — A contributory factor of a problem or accident is one of the things which caused it to exist or happen.
- conurbations — Plural form of conurbation.
- cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
- corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)
- coulrophobia — an abnormal fear of clowns.
- crime-buster — a law officer who specializes in fighting large-scale organized crime
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- cub mistress — a woman who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- cuiaba-river — a river in SW Brazil. About 300 miles (485 km) long.
- cuir-bouilli — a type of leather hardened by soaking in wax, used for armour before the 14th century
- curb service — service, for example, from a restaurant to customers in vehicles parked at the curb
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- decarburized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarburize.
- destructible — capable of being or liable to be destroyed
- disencumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disencumber.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
- incumbrancer — (legal) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- incurability — The quality or state of being incurable—not being able to be cured.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- instructible — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- le corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lubriciously — In a lubricious manner.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- lumbriciform — resembling a lumbricus; wormlike
- magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microfibrous — Composed of microscopic fibres.