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13-letter words containing u, m, b, r, e

  • councilmember — a member of a council, especially a legislative council.
  • croquembouche — a French dessert consisting of a cone-shaped mound of small cream puffs glazed with caramelized sugar
  • cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
  • cucumber root — Indian cucumber root.
  • cucumber tree — any of several American trees or shrubs of the genus Magnolia, esp M. acuminata, of E and central North America, having cup-shaped greenish flowers and cucumber-shaped fruits
  • customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
  • cutter number — a code combining decimal numbers with letters from an author's surname, used in an alphabetizing system.
  • deutocerebrum — (zoology) The median lobes of the brain of an insect.
  • disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
  • disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
  • disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
  • dumb terminal — (hardware)   A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • encumbrancers — Plural form of encumbrancer.
  • enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
  • farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
  • filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
  • fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
  • homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
  • hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
  • immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
  • imperturbable — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
  • imperturbably — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
  • imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
  • jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
  • komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
  • labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
  • lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
  • lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
  • lever tumbler — a flat metal tumbler in a lock.
  • libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
  • liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
  • lumbar plexus — a network of nerves originating in the spinal nerves of the midback region and innervating the pelvic area, the front of the legs, and part of the feet.
  • lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
  • luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
  • marble quarry — a quarry where marble is extracted
  • measurability — capable of being measured.
  • medium bomber — a moderately large airplane capable of carrying large bomb loads for moderate distances at medium altitudes, especially one having a gross loaded weight of 100,000 to 250,000 pounds (45,000 to 113,000 kg).
  • melbourne cup — an annual horse race run in Melbourne, since 1861
  • membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
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