14-letter words containing s, t, b, r, u
- bull stretcher — Also called bullnose stretcher. a brick having one of the edges along its length rounded for laying as a stretcher in a sill or the like.
- bull's-eye rot — a disease of apples and pears, characterized by sunken, eyelike spots on the fruit and twig cankers, caused by any of several fungi, especially of the genus Neofabraea.
- bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
- burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
- bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
- bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
- bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
- butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
- butler's table — a small table, usually used as a coffee table, with a removable or fixed butler's tray for a top.
- butterfly bush — buddleia
- butterfly fish — 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
- buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
- buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
- buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
- buyers' strike — an attempt on the part of consumers to lower price levels by boycotting retailers or certain types of goods.
- by the numbers — in prescribed sequence of movements and accompanied by a count
- caustic baryta — baryta (def 2).
- caustic-baryta — Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass.
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- christmas bush — any of various trees or shrubs flowering at Christmas and used for decoration
- christmas club — a savings account in a bank in which regular deposits are made, usually throughout one year, as to provide funds for Christmas shopping.
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
- countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
- crucible steel — a high-quality steel made by melting wrought iron, charcoal, and other additives in a crucible
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- cucurbitaceous — belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- disequilibrate — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- dissector tube — a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning.
- distributaries — Plural form of distributary.
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.