13-letter words containing a, b, u, r, s
- labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
- labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- lumbar plexus — a network of nerves originating in the spinal nerves of the midback region and innervating the pelvic area, the front of the legs, and part of the feet.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- measurability — capable of being measured.
- membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- minisubmarine — A small submarine.
- misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
- neuroblastoma — a malignant tumor of immature nerve cells that usually starts in the autonomic nervous system or adrenal gland and spreads quickly, most often affecting young children.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
- nonmeasurable — capable of being measured.
- nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
- onus probandi — the burden of proof.
- overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
- pleasure boat — recreational vessel
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- rabble-rouser — a person who stirs up the passions or prejudices of the public, usually for his or her own interests; demagogue.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
- republicanism — republican government.
- resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rough as bags — uncouth
- run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
- saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- sea butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
- serial number — a number, usually one of a series, assigned for identification: the serial number of an automobile engine.
- serum albumin — Biochemistry. the principal protein of blood plasma, important in osmotic regulation of the blood and transport of metabolites.
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- siberian ruby — a red tourmaline used as a gem: not a true ruby.
- sinumbra lamp — an unshaded sperm-oil lamp consisting of a translucent glass globe supported on a pedestal: a form of astral lamp.
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- 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.
- sound blaster — (hardware) The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
- sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
- south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
- spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
- 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.
- square number — a number that is the square of another integer, as 1 of 1, 4 of 2, 9 of 3, etc.