12-letter words containing s, o, u, b, r
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- le corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lubriciously — In a lubricious manner.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- masturbatory — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microfibrous — Composed of microscopic fibres.
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- mobius strip — a continuous, one-sided surface formed by twisting one end of a rectangular strip through 180° about the longitudinal axis of the strip and attaching this end to the other.
- mount erebus — a volcano in Antarctica, on Ross Island: discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 and named after his ship. Height: 3794 m (12 448 ft)
- mount robson — a mountain in SW Canada, in E British Columbia: the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. Height: 3954 m (12 972 ft)
- murfreesboro — a city in central Tennessee: battle of Stone River (or Murfreesboro) 1862.
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- musturbation — (psychology) The compulsive insistence that things ought to be a particular way.
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- nimbostratus — a cloud of a class characterized by a formless layer that is almost uniformly dark gray; a rain cloud of the layer type, of low altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2440 meters).
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- obreptitious — having the characteristics of acquiring something by deceitful means
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
- obstreperous — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
- obstructions — Plural form of obstruction.
- ombrophilous — (of plants) tolerant of wet conditions
- ombrophobous — (of plants) not able to tolerate wet conditions
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
- post-puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
- press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
- public works — government-funded construction
- rabble-rouse — to stir up the emotions or prejudices of the public; agitate.