13-letter words containing s, a, b, t, r
- flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
- great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
- great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
- great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
- harbor master — an official who supervises operations in a harbor area and administers its rules.
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- heartbreakers — Plural form of heartbreaker.
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- horseshoe bat — any of numerous large-eared Old World insectivorous bats, mostly of the genus Rhinolophus, with a fleshy growth around the nostrils, used in echolocation: family Rhinolophidae
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- hunt saboteur — A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted.
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- illustratable — Capable of being illustrated.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- inobservation — lack of observation
- insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
- insupportably — In an insupportable manner.
- invertebrates — Zoology. not vertebrate; without a backbone. of or relating to creatures without a backbone.
- irritableness — Quality of being irritable.
- isobarometric — isobaric
- isobathytherm — a line on a chart or diagram of a body of water, connecting depths having the same temperature.
- isothermobath — a line drawn on a diagram of a vertical section of the ocean connecting all points having equal temperature.
- jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
- labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
- labyrinthitis — inflammation of the inner ear, or labyrinth, characterized by dizziness, nausea, and visual disturbances.
- lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
- least bittern — any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
- liberationism — the principles of liberationists
- liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- library paste — a white, smooth paste for paper and lightweight cardboard.
- library steps — a folding stepladder, especially one folding into another piece of furniture, as a table or chair.
- libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
- livery stable — a stable where horses and vehicles are cared for or rented out for pay.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- malabar coast — a region along the entire SW coast of India, extending from the Arabian Sea inland to the Western Ghats.
- malabsorbtion — Misspelling of malabsorption.
- malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
- market basket — a basket or cart for groceries.
- marx brothers — the. a US family of film comedians, esp Arthur Marx, known as Harpo (1888–1964), Herbert Marx, known as Zeppo (1901–79), Julius Marx, known as Groucho (1890–1977), and Leonard Marx, known as Chico (1886–1961). Their films include Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931), Horsefeathers (1932), Duck Soup (1933), and A Day at the Races (1937)
- measurability — capable of being measured.
- memorabiliast — a person who collects mementos or souvenirs, as postcards or playbills.