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13-letter words containing s, o, b, r, i, e

  • carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
  • clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
  • compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
  • constrainable — able to be constrained
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • core business — the business activity that is main source of a company's profits and success, usually the activity that the company was originally set up to carry out
  • cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
  • crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
  • cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
  • deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
  • discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
  • dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
  • ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
  • exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
  • exercise book — An exercise book is a small book that students use for writing in.
  • exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
  • 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.
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
  • frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
  • garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
  • get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
  • globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
  • heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
  • hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
  • hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
  • inconstruable — unable to be construed
  • inconversable — (obsolete) uncommunicative; reserved.
  • incorrigibles — Plural form of incorrigible.
  • inobservation — lack of observation
  • inobtrusively — in an unobtrusive manner
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
  • interobserver — someone or something that observes.
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