12-letter words containing a, b, u, r, s
- sun umbrella — an umbrella by a chair or table, used for protecting you from the sun
- supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
- superposable — to place above or upon something else, or one upon another.
- support band — a band, pop group, rock group, etc not topping the bill
- supraorbital — situated above the eye socket.
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- survival bag — a large plastic bag carried by climbers for use in an emergency as protection against exposure
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- thrash about — flail, throw oneself around
- through bass — figured bass.
- trustability — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- turbinacious — with a peaty aroma or flavour
- turbo pascal — (language, product) Borland International's Pascal. Perhaps the first integrated development environment for MS-DOS. Versions 1.0-3.0: standard Pascal with a few extensions Versions 4.0 (1987) and 5.0: separate compilation. Version 5.5: object-oriented. Version 6.0: Turbo Vision OOP library.
- turkish bath — a bath in which the bather, after copious perspiration in a steam room, showers and has a rubdown.
- ubangi-shari — former name of the Central African Republic.
- unanswerable — not capable of being answered; not having a known or discoverable answer: an unanswerable question.
- unmeasurable — of undetermined or indefinitely great extent or amount; unlimited; measureless: the unmeasured heavens.
- unmeasurably — of undetermined or indefinitely great extent or amount; unlimited; measureless: the unmeasured heavens.
- unobservable — incapable of observation; imperceptible
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- unperishable — imperishable
- unpersonable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- unreasonable — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
- unreasonably — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
- unrepulsable — not able to be repulsed or driven back
- unresolvable — not able to be resolved or brought to a satisfactory resolution
- unrestorable — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- unsalubrious — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- unsearchable — not searchable; not lending itself to research or exploration; not to be understood by searching; hidden; unfathomable; mysterious: the unsearchable ways of the universe.
- unsearchably — in an unsearchable manner
- unshrinkable — not able to contract or become smaller in size
- unsufferable — insufferable; intolerable
- unsurvivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- up for grabs — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- upright bass — double bass
- urban forest — the trees and plants within a city.
- urban sprawl — the uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions.
- urbanisation — the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city: Urbanization has led to more air pollution and increasing childhood asthma.
- urbanologist — a sociologist specializing in urban life and problems
- verbal abuse — insulting, shouting at sb
- verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
- williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.
- zebra mussel — a small striped freshwater mussel from NE Europe, Dreissena polymorpha: introduced to the Great Lakes in the 1980s and deleteriously affecting water pipes, other fauna, etc.