13-letter words containing u, n, r, e, b
- bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
- brittany blue — a medium greenish blue.
- bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
- brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
- buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
- buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
- bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- bunker buster — a laser-guided bomb designed to penetrate deep underground, as into rock or concrete, before detonating.
- bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
- bunsen burner — a gas burner, widely used in scientific laboratories, consisting of a metal tube with an adjustable air valve at the base
- buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
- buprenorphine — an opiate used medicinally as a powerful analgesic
- burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
- bus mastering — bus master
- busheled iron — heterogeneous iron made from scrap iron and steel.
- business card — A person's business card or their card is a small card which they give to other people, and which has their name and details of their job and company printed on it.
- business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
- business trip — a journey made somewhere and back again for business purposes in one's working capacity
- butcher knife — a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.
- butcher linen — a strong, heavy fabric made of rayon or rayon and cotton with a linen finish, constructed in plain weave.
- butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- butterfly net — a lightweight, fine net on the end of a pole used for catching butterflies
- butterfly nut — wing nut.
- butyl nitrite — a volatile liquid, C 4 H 9 NO 2 , the vapor of which can cause headache and vasodilation, used as an active ingredient in some household deodorizers, and misused by inhalation to prolong the sensation of orgasm.
- butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
- by its nature — If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
- by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
- cab rank rule — the rule that obliges barristers to take on any client in strict rotation
- cabin cruiser — A cabin cruiser is a motor boat which has a cabin for people to live or sleep in.
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
- cerulean blue — a light-blue to strong greenish-blue color.
- cetane number — a measure of the quality of a diesel fuel expressed as the percentage of cetane in a mixture of cetane and 1-methylnapthalene of the same quality as the given fuel
- chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
- chickenburger — A hot sandwich made of a patty of chicken in a bun, often with other ingredients.
- circumambient — surrounding
- clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
- congratulable — worthy of congratulation
- conjecturable — Able to be conjectured upon.
- constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- contributable — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contribute to — to have a share in bringing about (a result); be partly responsible for
- core business — the business activity that is main source of a company's profits and success, usually the activity that the company was originally set up to carry out