13-letter words containing s, h, r, u, b
- letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
- lubber's hole — (in a top on a mast) an open space through which a sailor may pass instead of climbing out on the futtock shrouds.
- luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- osborne house — a house near Cowes on the Isle of Wight: the favourite residence of Queen Victoria, who died there; now a convalescent home
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rosebud mouth — a mouth that resembles the unopened flower of a rose in shape
- rough as bags — uncouth
- roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
- rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- short subject — a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film.
- shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
- southern blot — a procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific DNA sequence or gene in a mixed extract, as in testing for a mutation or a virus: DNA strands from the person or organism under study are cut with restriction enzymes, separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to special filter paper, and hybridized with a labeled DNA probe.
- styling brush — a hairbrush used to style or neaten hair
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
- subinhibitory — not completely inhibiting
- surbased arch — drop arch (def 2).
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- thorough bass — figured bass.
- toothbrushing — the act or method of cleaning the teeth with a toothbrush.
- turban squash — a turban-shaped variety of winter squash, Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis.
- unscratchable — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- unsmotherable — unquenchable
- unstretchable — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- untarnishable — to dull the luster of (a metallic surface), especially by oxidation; discolor.
- vannevar bush — (person) Dr. Vannevar Bush, 1890-1974. The man who invented hypertext, which he called memex, in the 1930s. Bush did his undergraduate work at Tufts College, where he later taught. His masters thesis (1913) included the invention of the Profile Tracer, used in surveying work to measure distances over uneven ground. In 1919, he joined MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering, where he stayed for twenty-five years. In 1932, he was appointed vice-president and dean. At this time, Bush worked on optical and photocomposition devices, as well as a machine for rapid selection from banks of microfilm. Further positions followed: president of the Carnegie Institute in Washington, DC (1939); chair of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1939); director of Office of Scientific Research and Development. This last role was as presidential science advisor, which made him personally responsible for the 6,000 scientists involved in the war effort. During World War II, Bush worked on radar antenna profiles and the calculation of artillery firing tables. He proposed the development of an analogue computer, which later became the Rockefeller Differential Analyser. Bush is the pivotal figure in hypertext research. His ground-breaking 1945 paper, "As We May Think," speculated on how a machine might be created to assist human reasoning, and introduced the idea of an easily accessible, individually configurable storehouse of knowledge. This machine, which he dubbed "memex," in various ways anticipated hypermedia and the World Wide Web by nearly half a century.
- web publisher — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
- whole numbers — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).