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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 baconFrancis (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.
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