13-letter words containing s, u, b, c
- cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
- culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
- 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.
- debauchedness — The state or quality of being debauched.
- deducibleness — The quality of being deducible.
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
- double sculls — a race for sculls rowed by two rowers, each using a pair of oars.
- dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
- encumbrancers — Plural form of encumbrancer.
- equilibristic — Of or pertaining to equilibristics.
- excusableness — The quality of being excusable.
- fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- hercules-club — Also called Southern prickly ash. a prickly tree, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, of the rue family, having a medicinal bark and berries.
- hot cross bun — a bun with a cross of frosting on it, eaten chiefly during Lent.
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
- incombustible — not combustible; incapable of being burned; fireproof.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- incurableness — The state or condition of being incurable.
- indiscussible — unsuitable for or not subject or open to discussion; not negotiable.
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- insusceptible — not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of or to): insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- lactobacillus — any long, slender, rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus, that produces large amounts of lactic acid in the fermentation of carbohydrates, especially in milk.
- letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- microbusiness — A business that operates on a very small scale.
- multisyllabic — polysyllabic.
- new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- nonconsumable — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- nonsubjective — Not subjective.
- object clause — the clause that acts as the object of a verb
- obstructively — In an obstructive manner.
- opossum block — (in New Zealand) a block of bush allocated to a licensed opossum trapper
- oversubscribe — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
- pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
- paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
- pilot biscuit — hardtack.
- postpubescent — a young person in his or her early teens.