13-letter words containing be
- rubber bullet — A rubber bullet is a bullet made of a metal ball coated with rubber. It is intended to injure people rather than kill them, and is used by police or soldiers to control crowds during a riot.
- rubber cement — a viscous, flammable liquid consisting of unvulcanized rubber dispersed in benzene, gasoline, or the like, used chiefly as an adhesive.
- rubber cheque — a cheque that bounces
- rubber gloves — gloves made of rubber, worn to protect the hands while washing up, gardening, etc
- rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
- rubbernecking — staring or gaping inquisitively, esp in a naive or foolish manner
- rube goldberg — having a fantastically complicated, improvised appearance: a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes.
- rum rebellion — the deposition of Governor William Bligh in 1808 by officers of the New South Wales Corps, caused by his interference in their trading activities, esp in the trafficking of rum
- running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
- rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
- ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
- saber-toothed — having long, saberlike upper canine teeth, sometimes extending below the margin of the lower jaw.
- saint bernard — Great, a mountain pass between SW Switzerland and NW Italy, in the Pennine Alps: Napoleon led his army through it in 1800; location of a hospice. 8108 feet (2470 meters) high.
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- sanitary belt — a narrow belt, usually of elastic, for holding a sanitary napkin in place.
- schreibersite — a mineral, iron-nickel phosphide, (Fe, Ni) 3 P, found only in meteorites.
- self-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
- self-begotten — a past participle of beget.
- self-betrayal — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
- serial number — a number, usually one of a series, assigned for identification: the serial number of an automobile engine.
- shield bearer — an attendant who carries the shield or arms of a warrior.
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- siberian high — the prevailing high pressure system over Asia in winter.
- siberian ruby — a red tourmaline used as a gem: not a true ruby.
- signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
- smoked rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of brown sheets obtained by coagulating latex with an acid, rolling it into sheets, and drying over open wood fires. It is the main raw material for natural rubber products
- spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
- speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
- sponge rubber — a light, spongy rubber, usually prepared by bubbling carbon dioxide through or whipping air into latex, used for padding, insulation, gaskets, etc.; foam rubber.
- spreader beam — a crosspiece for spacing the chains or cables hanging from the boom of a crane.
- 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.
- spruce beetle — a beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, that feeds on and nests in spruce, pine, and other evergreen trees, sometimes causing extensive damage.
- square number — a number that is the square of another integer, as 1 of 1, 4 of 2, 9 of 3, etc.
- state chamber — a room for public ceremonies and celebrations.
- stingless bee — any of certain social, honey-producing tropical bees of the family Apidae, as of the genus Melipona, having a nonfunctional stinger.
- street number — the number on a street of a particular building or address
- stringer bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
- subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
- subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
- subequatorial — of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.
- supreme being — God.
- surge chamber — a chamber for absorbing surge from a liquid or gas.
- temporal lobe — the lateral lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the occipital lobe.
- testing bench — a piece of equipment for testing if a machine or device is working properly
- that's better — You say 'That's better' in order to express your approval of what someone has said or done, or to praise or encourage them.
- the beautiful — the quality of beauty
- the best part — If you say that something happened for the best part or the better part of a period of time, you mean that it happened for most of that time.