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17-letter words containing a, b, u, n, s

  • absolute judgment — any judgment about a single stimulus, e.g. about the value of one of its properties or about whether it is present or absent
  • absolute monarchy — a monarchy without constitutional limits
  • absolute monopoly — a market situation in which there is only one supplier of a good or service for which there is no acceptable substitute.
  • absolute pathname — (file system)   A pathname relative to the root directory.
  • absorption nebula — a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that absorbs and thus obscures the light from stars behind it, appearing as a dark patch in front of a bright nebula or in an otherwise bright area of sky.
  • abyssinian church — the Monophysitic church founded by Frumentius in the 4th century a.d., and resembling the Coptic Church in doctrine, practice, and discipline, but using Ethiopic in its liturgy.
  • ambulance service — the public organization that operates ambulances in a country
  • analytical cubism — the early phase of cubism, chiefly characterized by a pronounced use of geometric shapes and by a tendency toward a monochromatic use of color.
  • angostura bitters — a bitter aromatic tonic made from gentian and various spices and vegetable colourings, used as a flavouring in alcoholic drinks
  • assembly language — a low-level programming language that allows a programmer complete control of the machine code to be generated
  • asset-backed fund — a fund in which the money is invested in property, shares, etc, rather than being deposited with a bank or building society
  • audubon's warbler — a common North American wood warbler, Dendroica coronata, having yellow spots on the rump, crown, and sides, including a white-throated eastern subspecies (myrtle warbler) and a yellow-throated western subspecies (Audubon's warbler)
  • australian ballot — an official ballot listing candidates for election to public office and issues, levies, etc., distributed inside the polling place to be marked by the voter in secret: it originated in Australia and is widely used in the U.S.
  • avogadro's number — the constant, 6.022 × 10 23 , representing the number of atoms, molecules, or ions in one mole of a substance. Symbol: N. Compare gram-atom, gram molecule.
  • bachelor's button — any of several plants of a genus (Centaurea) of the composite family, that have scaly, vase-shaped bracts below the white, pink, or blue flowers; esp., the cornflower and knapweed
  • bachelor's-button — any of various plants with round flower heads, especially the cornflower.
  • bankruptcy estate — all of the interests that a debtor has at the start of a bankruptcy case
  • barkhausen effect — the phenomenon of short, sudden changes in the magnetism of a ferromagnetic substance occurring when the intensity of the magnetizing field is continuously altered.
  • barrow-in-furness — an industrial town in NW England, in S Cumbria. Pop: 47 194 (2001)
  • be running scared — If you say that a person or group is running scared, you mean that they are frightened of what someone might do to them or what might happen.
  • bent out of shape — very angry, upset, or agitated
  • bighorn mountains — range of the Rocky Mountains in N Wyo. and S Mont.: highest peak, 13,165 ft (4,013 m)
  • bjarne stroustrup — (person)   The father of C++ and author of the C++ bible.
  • blackcurrant bush — a bush of the blackcurrant plant
  • blackout curtains — thick, lined curtains designed to shut out all daylight and keep a room in complete darkness
  • blood transfusion — A blood transfusion is a process in which blood is injected into the body of a person who is badly injured or ill.
  • blue false indigo — a North American plant, Baptisia australis, of the legume family, having wedge-shaped leaflets and blue, clustered flowers.
  • bluegrass country — region in central Ky. where there is much bluegrass
  • boothia peninsula — a peninsula of N Canada: the northernmost part of the mainland of North America, lying west of the Gulf of Boothia, an arm of the Arctic Ocean
  • british columbian — of or relating to British Columbia or its inhabitants
  • brzesc nad bugiem — Polish name of Brest Litovsk.
  • bubble and squeak — Bubble and squeak is a dish made from a mixture of cold cooked cabbage, potato, and sometimes meat. It can be grilled or fried.
  • buncher resonator — See under Klystron.
  • bushman's singlet — a sleeveless heavy black woollen singlet, used as working clothing by timber fellers
  • business as usual — In a difficult situation, if you say it is business as usual, you mean that people will continue doing what they normally do.
  • butacaine sulfate — a colorless, crystalline substance, (C18H30N2O2)2·H2SO4, used as a local anesthetic, esp. on mucous membranes
  • buyers' inflation — inflation in which rising demand results in a rise in prices.
  • cannot choose but — to be obliged to
  • captain's biscuit — a type of hard fancy biscuit
  • carbon disulphide — a colourless slightly soluble volatile flammable poisonous liquid commonly having a disagreeable odour due to the presence of impurities: used as an organic solvent and in the manufacture of rayon and carbon tetrachloride. Formula: CS2
  • cariboo mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 3520 m (11 549 ft)
  • clumber (spaniel) — a short-legged spaniel with a heavy body and a thick coat of straight, white hair marked with yellow or orange
  • consubstantiation — the doctrine that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists within the substance of the consecrated bread and wine
  • contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
  • count one's beads — to pray with a rosary
  • dagestan republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
  • deoxyribonuclease — DNase.
  • dishonourableness — Alternative spelling of dishonorableness.
  • double insulation — Double insulation is insulation that consists of both basic insulation and supplementary insulation.
  • douglas engelbart — (person)   Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. On 1968-12-09, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, USA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the on live system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse, hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking and shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. The original 90-minute video: Hyperlinks, Mouse, Web-board.

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