13-letter words containing s, a, m, b, u
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- hothouse lamb — a lamb born in the fall or early winter, usually reared indoors, specially fed, and marketed when from 9 to 16 weeks of age.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- immutableness — The state of being immutable; unchangeableness.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- lumbar plexus — a network of nerves originating in the spinal nerves of the midback region and innervating the pelvic area, the front of the legs, and part of the feet.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- mean business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- measurability — capable of being measured.
- membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- metabisulfite — (inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion of sulfur S2O52- or any salt containing this ion.
- minisubmarine — A small submarine.
- misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
- mosquito boat — PT boat.
- multisyllabic — polysyllabic.
- multisyllable — polysyllable.
- neuroblastoma — a malignant tumor of immature nerve cells that usually starts in the autonomic nervous system or adrenal gland and spreads quickly, most often affecting young children.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- nonconsumable — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- nonmeasurable — capable of being measured.
- oil-based mud — Oil-based mud is a drilling fluid that is an emulsion containing oil as the base fluid.
- ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
- overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- republicanism — republican government.
- resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
- sand bluestem — a grass, Andropogon hallii, native to the Great Plains, used as a cover crop for sand dunes.
- serial number — a number, usually one of a series, assigned for identification: the serial number of an automobile engine.
- serum albumin — Biochemistry. the principal protein of blood plasma, important in osmotic regulation of the blood and transport of metabolites.
- sinumbra lamp — an unshaded sperm-oil lamp consisting of a translucent glass globe supported on a pedestal: a form of astral lamp.
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- sodium borate — borax1 .
- square number — a number that is the square of another integer, as 1 of 1, 4 of 2, 9 of 3, etc.
- status symbol — an object, habit, etc., by which the social or economic status of the possessor may be judged.
- steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
- stimulability — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- subassemblage — a group of persons or things gathered or collected; an assembly; collection; aggregate.
- subdepartment — a distinct part of anything arranged in divisions; a division of a complex whole or organized system.
- submarine pen — a bunker that prevents submarines from bombs
- subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
- supermembrane — a type of two-dimensional entity postulated in certain theories of elementary particles that involve supersymmetry
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- trumpet blast — the sound of a single note made by a trumpet
- umbrella step — (in the game of giant steps) a step executed by extending one foot forward and whirling on the heel.