13-letter words containing s, n, r, b
- dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
- distributions — Plural form of distribution.
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
- durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
- east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
- east by north — a point on the compass 11°15′ north of east. Abbreviation: EbN.
- easter bonnet — an especially pretty or fancy hat designed for a woman to wear to church on Easter Sunday or, especially, in an Easter parade
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
- embarrassment — A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
- embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
- embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
- encumbrancers — Plural form of encumbrancer.
- endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
- ensign-bearer — a soldier whose responsibility was to carry a Company's ensign
- exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
- exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
- fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
- febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
- fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
- foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
- forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
- francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
- garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
- garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
- generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
- genre-busting — not conforming to established patterns, styles, etc
- gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
- gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
- hertogenbosch — 's Hertogenbosch.
- hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
- honest broker — a neutral person or organization that mediates disputes; an impartial mediator.
- honorableness — The property of being honorable.
- hot cross bun — a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- 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.
- hunter's robe — pothos.
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.