12-letter words containing u, r, b, a
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- half-cup bra — a bra that covers three-quarters of the breasts rather than all of the breasts
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- incumbrancer — (legal) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
- incurability — The quality or state of being incurable—not being able to be cured.
- india rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
- infundibular — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- insalubrious — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insurability — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- intertubular — Between tubes or tubules.
- inurbaneness — The quality of being inurbane; inurbanity.
- invulnerable — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- invulnerably — In an invulnerable manner.
- irrebuttable — incapable of being rebutted or refuted.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- johor baharu — a city in S Malaysia, near Singapore.
- johore bahru — a city in and the capital of Johore state, Malaysia, in the S part.
- jubilee year — jubilee (def 5a).
- julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906.
- labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
- latex rubber — rubber used to make many products such as gloves, condoms, etc, and which is made from latex, a whitish milky fluid containing protein, starch, alkaloids, etc, that is produced by many plants
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- liquidambars — Plural form of liquidambar.