13-letter words containing s, t, b, r, u
- bustard-quail — any of several birds of the family Turnicidae, of warmer parts of the Old World, resembling but not related to the true quail. Also called bustard quail, hemipode.
- buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
- busto arsizio — a city in Lombardy, N Italy.
- butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
- butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
- butler's tray — a tray resting on or attached to an X-shaped, often folding stand, on which are kept drink bottles and glasses
- butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- buttress root — a tree root that extends above ground as a platelike outgrowth of the trunk supporting the tree. Buttress roots are mainly found in trees of tropical rain forests
- by its nature — If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- contributions — Plural form of contribution.
- core subjects — three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
- counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
- country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
- creosote bush — a shrub, Larrea (or Covillea) tridentata of the western US and Mexico, that has resinous leaves with an odour resembling creosote, and can live for many thousands of years: family Zygophyllaceae
- cross-buttock — a wrestling throw in which the hips are used as a fulcrum to throw an opponent
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- cybersecurity — the state of being safe from electronic crime and the measures taken to achieve this
- cybersquatter — the registration of a commercially valuable Internet domain name, as a trademark, with the intention of selling it or profiting from its use.
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
- disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distributions — Plural form of distribution.
- distributives — Plural form of distributive.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- equilibristic — Of or pertaining to equilibristics.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- geissler tube — a sealed glass tube with platinum connections at the ends, containing rarefied gas made luminous by an electrical discharge.
- genre-busting — not conforming to established patterns, styles, etc
- great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- hot cross bun — a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- 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.
- illustratable — Capable of being illustrated.
- immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
- imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.