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15-letter words containing s, u, b, a, c, r

  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • mucous membrane — a lubricating membrane lining an internal surface or an organ, as the alimentary, respiratory, and genitourinary canals.
  • obstacle course — a military training area having obstacles, as hurdles, ditches, and walls, that must be surmounted or crossed in succession.
  • parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • ratafia biscuit — a macaroon.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
  • sb's trump card — Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
  • scribaciousness — the quality or state of being scribacious
  • sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
  • spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • sub-corporation — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
  • superbureaucrat — an important or highly powerful bureaucrat
  • tararua biscuit — a tramper's home-made biscuit with a high calorie content
  • turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
  • un-considerable — rather large or great in size, distance, extent, etc.: It cost a considerable amount. We took a considerable length of time to decide.
  • unascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • unconstrainable — unable to be confined
  • uncontrollables — incapable of being controlled or restrained: uncontrollable anger.
  • urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
  • vascular bundle — a longitudinal arrangement of strands of xylem and phloem, and sometimes cambium, that forms the fluid-conducting channels of vascular tissue in the rhizomes, stems, and leaf veins of vascular plants, the arrangement varying with the type of plant.
  • welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
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