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13-letter words containing r, a, b, i, u

  • prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
  • rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
  • reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • republicanize — to make republican.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • 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.
  • rub' al khali — a desert in S Arabia, mainly in Saudi Arabia, extending southeast from Nejd to Hadramaut and northeast from Yemen to the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • rub` al khali — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
  • 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.
  • 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
  • running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • sub-librarian — an assistant or junior librarian
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subclavicular — a bone of the pectoral arch.
  • subcoriaceous — almost leathery
  • subderivative — a word derived from a derivative.
  • subequatorial — of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • subliterature — writing below the standards of literature as an art form.
  • submarine pen — a bunker that prevents submarines from bombs
  • subordination — the act of placing in a lower rank or position: The refusal to allow women to be educated was part of society's subordination of women to men.
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
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