14-letter words containing u, r, b
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- equilibristics — Any of various circus skills involving balance or equilibrium, such as juggling, tightrope walking, or riding a unicycle.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
- exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
- fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
- fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- frequency band — band2 (def 9).
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- general public — people in general
- george hw bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
- haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
- he-huckleberry — swamp andromeda.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- hercules'-club — a prickly North American araliaceous shrub, Aralia spinosa, with medicinal bark and leaves
- homeward bound — going home
- honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
- hornyhead chub — a small N American fish, Nocomis biguttatus
- hubbard squash — a variety of winter squash having a green or yellow skin and yellow flesh.
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- hydroxybutyric — Of or pertaining to the hydroxybutyric acids or their derivatives.
- imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
- in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.