13-letter words containing t, u, n, b, e
- mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- multibusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- neuroblastoma — a malignant tumor of immature nerve cells that usually starts in the autonomic nervous system or adrenal gland and spreads quickly, most often affecting young children.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- news bulletin — a usually short news broadcast
- non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
- non-imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- non-incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- non-reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- nondeductible — Not allowable as a deduction from income for the calculation of taxes.
- nonreturnable — not returnable.
- nonsubjective — Not subjective.
- nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
- number theory — the study of integers and their relation to one another.
- obtrusiveness — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- octane number — (of gasoline) a designation of antiknock quality, numerically equal to the percentage of isooctane by volume in a mixture of isooctane and normal heptane that matches the given gasoline in antiknock characteristics.
- on the bounce — in succession; one after the other
- on the bubble — in a situation in which the outcome is uncertain but already in the process of being determined or decided
- on the button — a small disk, knob, or the like for sewing or otherwise attaching to an article, as of clothing, serving as a fastening when passed through a buttonhole or loop.
- on the double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- over-abundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overexuberant — effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic; lavishly abundant: an exuberant welcome for the hero.
- peanut butter — a paste made from ground roasted peanuts, used as a spread or in cookery.
- perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
- plumbosolvent — able to dissolve lead
- polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
- postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
- postpubescent — a young person in his or her early teens.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- proton number — the number of positive charges or protons in the nucleus of an atom of a given element, and therefore also the number of electrons normally surrounding the nucleus. Symbol: Z. Abbreviation: at. no.;
- punjab states — (formerly) a group of states in NW India, amalgamated in 1956 with Punjab state
- quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
- quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- record button — the button that you press on a device or remote control to begin recording sound, images, etc
- redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- reimbursement — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- republication — publication anew.
- resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- robert fulton — Robert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat.
- rubber cement — a viscous, flammable liquid consisting of unvulcanized rubber dispersed in benzene, gasoline, or the like, used chiefly as an adhesive.
- run batted in — a runner advanced to home for a score by a particular player at bat, as when he or she gets a hit or a walk with the bases loaded: a category important in individual offensive statistics. Abbreviation: R.B.I.
- ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
- saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.