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13-letter words containing a, b, d, u

  • indissuadable — incapable of being dissuaded
  • indissuadably — in an indissuadable way
  • indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
  • ineducability — Inability to be educated.
  • infundibulate — Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular.
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
  • lavender-blue — coloured between blue and pale or light bluish-purple to a very pale violet colour
  • mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
  • meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
  • millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
  • misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
  • mountainboard — a type of skateboard specially designed for rough terrain and steep slopes, having four large wheels linked by a suspension system
  • mourning band — a piece of black material, esp an armband, worn to indicate that the wearer is in mourning
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
  • nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
  • nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
  • oil-based mud — Oil-based mud is a drilling fluid that is an emulsion containing oil as the base fluid.
  • old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
  • ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
  • onus probandi — the burden of proof.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • out and about — busy, active outside the home
  • outward bound — (in Britain) a scheme to provide adventure training for young people
  • outward-bound — headed in an outward direction, as toward foreign ports: We passed an outward-bound ship as we came into the harbor.
  • over-abundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • pas de basque — a step in which the dancer swings one foot to the side, springs onto it, and swings the other foot against it.
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
  • pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
  • quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • quarter-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person with one white grandparent, especially a person of American Indian ancestry.
  • quarterbacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quarterback.
  • quodlibetical — a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
  • random number — pseudorandom number
  • random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
  • running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
  • sand bluestem — a grass, Andropogon hallii, native to the Great Plains, used as a cover crop for sand dunes.
  • sodium borate — borax1 .
  • sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.
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