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13-letter words containing u, b, o, l, t

  • collar button — the button used to fasten the collar down on a garment
  • commutability — The quality of being commutable.
  • commuter belt — A commuter belt is the area surrounding a large city, where many people who work in the city live.
  • computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
  • concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
  • confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
  • confabulation — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
  • confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • conjecturable — Able to be conjectured upon.
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
  • contributable — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • coolidge tube — a cathode ray tube, used for x-ray production, in which a beam of thermoelectrons is produced by heating a wire cathode.
  • corticobulbar — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the brainstem, especially with regard to the corticobulbar tract, a white matter pathway connecting the two.
  • cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
  • counter table — a medieval English table having a top divided into appropriately marked spaces for various denominations of money.
  • counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
  • country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
  • crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
  • desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
  • direct labour — work that is an essential part of a production process or the provision of a service
  • dissolubility — The capability to be dissolved or disintegrated.
  • double batten — two wooden battens screwed together for holding the edge of a drop between them.
  • double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
  • double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • double-action — (of a firearm) requiring only one pull of the trigger to cock and fire it.
  • double-bottom — tandem trailer (def 1).
  • double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • double-dotted — (of a note) increased to one and three quarters of its original time value by the addition of two dots
  • double-tailed — (of a lion) represented with two tails joined together next to the body.
  • double-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • doubtlessness — The property of being doubtless.
  • electron tube — (electronics)   (Or tube, vacuum tube, UK: valve, electron valve, thermionic valve, firebottle, glassfet) An electronic component consisting of a space exhausted of gas to such an extent that electrons may move about freely, and two or more electrodes with external connections. Nearly all tubes are of the thermionic type where one electrode, called the cathode, is heated, and electrons are emitted from its surface with a small energy (typically a Volt or less). A second electrode, called the anode (plate) will attract the electrons when it is positive with respect to the cathode, allowing current in one direction but not the other. In types which are used for amplification of signals, additional electrodes, called grids, beam-forming electrodes, focussing electrodes and so on according to their purpose, are introduced between cathode and plate and modify the flow of electrons by electrostatic attraction or (usually) repulsion. A voltage change on a grid can control a substantially greater change in that between cathode and anode. Unlike semiconductors, except perhaps for FETs, the movement of electrons is simply a function of electrostatic field within the active region of the tube, and as a consequence of the very low mass of the electron, the currents can be changed quickly. Moreover, there is no limit to the current density in the space, and the electrodes which do dissapate power are usually metal and can be cooled with forced air, water, or other refrigerants. Today these features cause tubes to be the active device of choice when the signals to be amplified are a power levels of more than about 500 watts. The first electronic digital computers used hundreds of vacuum tubes as their active components which, given the reliability of these devices, meant the computers needed frequent repairs to keep them operating. The chief causes of unreliability are the heater used to heat the cathode and the connector into which the tube was plugged. Vacuum tube manufacturers in the US are nearly a thing of the past, with the exception of the special purpose types used in broadcast and image sensing and displays. Eimac, GE, RCA, and the like would probably refer to specific types such as "Beam Power Tetrode" and the like, and rarely use the generic terms. The cathode ray tube is a special purpose type based on these principles which is used for the visual display in television and computers. X-ray tubes are diodes (two element tubes) used at high voltage; a tungsten anode emits the energetic photons when the energetic electrons hit it. Magnetrons use magnetic fields to constrain the electrons; they provide very simple, high power, ultra-high frequency signals for radar, microwave ovens, and the like. Klystrons amplify signals at high power and microwave frequencies.
  • equilibration — The formation, or maintenance, of an equilibrium.
  • equilibratory — Relating to the physical sense of balance, or equilibrium.
  • faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
  • fantabulously — In a fantabulous manner; fantastically, wonderfully.
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
  • fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
  • full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
  • funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
  • funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • harold burton — Harold Hitz [hits] /hɪts/ (Show IPA), 1888–1964, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1945–58.
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