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13-letter words containing u, n, b, i, t, e

  • quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
  • re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • satanic abuse — sexual abuse (esp of children), killing, or violent acts considered to be carried out as part of satanic worship rituals
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
  • silent butler — a small receptacle having a handle and a hinged lid, used for collecting the contents of ashtrays, crumbs from a dinner table, etc., for disposal.
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
  • sub-questions — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subcollection — the act of collecting.
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • subindicative — of or relating to subindicating
  • subject index — alphabetical contents list
  • subjectifying — to make subjective.
  • sublieutenant — British. a navy officer ranking next below a lieutenant.
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • substantiated — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
  • substantively — a noun.
  • substantivize — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
  • table-turning — the movement of a table attributed by spiritualists to the power of spirits working through a group of persons placing their hands or fingers on the table top
  • tibeto-burman — a subfamily of Sino-Tibetan languages, including especially Tibetan and Burmese.
  • touchline ban — an official prohibition of a manager or coach from being present on or near the field during a match
  • tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
  • tributariness — the state of being tributary
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • tuberculation — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
  • tuberculinize — to inoculate with tuberculin.
  • tubing hanger — A tubing hanger is a device which is attached to the top tubing joint and supports the tubing.
  • turbine blade — any of a number of bladelike vanes assembled around the periphery of a turbine rotor to guide the steam or gas flow
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • un-actionable — furnishing ground for a lawsuit.
  • unabbreviated — shortened; made briefer: The rain led to an abbreviated picnic.
  • unbeautifully — in a unbeautiful or unattractive manner
  • unbelligerent — not belligerent or hostile
  • unbenignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
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