12-letter words containing r, u, b, t
- rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
- rumble strip — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
- saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
- saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
- salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
- saturability — capable of being saturated.
- scratchbuild — to build a scale model of something from scratch, that is, from raw materials like wood, clay or paper
- scratchbuilt — describing something which has been constructed by scratchbuilding
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- scrub typhus — an acute febrile disease characterized by severe headache, skin rash, chills, and swelling of the lymph nodes, caused by the bite of mites infected with the microorganism Rickettsia tsutsugamushi: occurs mainly in Asia, Australia, and the islands of the western Pacific
- scrutability — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
- south arabia — Protectorate of, a former protectorate of Great Britain in S Arabia, now part of the Republic of Yemen.
- square-built — sturdy and strong-looking
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- steel lumber — metal lumber composed of sheet steel.
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
- storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
- store-bought — commercially made rather than homemade.
- stressbuster — a product, practice, system, etc, that is designed to alleviate stress
- strobe tuner — an electronic instrument tuner that uses stroboscopic light
- struggle bus — a situation, task, etc., that seems difficult or frustrating: With no sleep last night, I’ll be on the struggle bus today.
- stubbornness — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
- sub-industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- sub-standard — A sub-standard service or product is unacceptable because it is below a required standard.
- sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
- subaggregate — a subtotal
- subalternant — a universal in relation to a subaltern
- subalternate — subordinate.
- subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subantarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately north of the Antarctic Circle; subpolar.
- subarcuation — a structure that is somewhat arched
- subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
- subcuticular — the nonliving epidermis that surrounds the edges of the fingernail or toenail.
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
- subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
- subfertility — below-average fertility
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
- subintroduce — to introduce subtly
- subminiature — subminiature camera.
- subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subordinator — a conjunction introducing a subordinate clause, as when in They were glad when I finished.