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17-letter words containing a, b, u, y

  • incommunicability — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
  • indistinguishably — In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.
  • insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • joachim du bellay — Joachim [French zhaw-a-keem] /French ʒɔ aˈkim/ (Show IPA), Bellay, Joachim du.
  • john of salisbury — c1115–80, English prelate and scholar.
  • keep your balance — If you keep your balance, for example when standing in a moving vehicle, you remain steady and do not fall over. If you lose your balance, you become unsteady and fall over.
  • lautenclavicymbal — a harpsichord with strings of gut rather than metal.
  • liability account — A liability account is an account recording a company's liabilities.
  • malagasy republic — former name of Madagascar.
  • management buyout — A management buyout is the buying of a company by its managers. The abbreviation MBO is also used.
  • manufacturability — The condition of being manufacturable.
  • massachusetts bay — an inlet of the Atlantic, off the E coast of Massachusetts.
  • mercury barometer — a barometer in which the weight of a column of mercury in a glass tube with a sealed top is balanced against that of the atmosphere pressing on an exposed cistern of mercury at the base of the mercury column, the height of the column varying with atmospheric pressure.
  • mesembryanthemums — Plural form of mesembryanthemum.
  • molecular biology — the branch of biology that deals with the nature of biological phenomena at the molecular level through the study of DNA and RNA, proteins, and other macromolecules involved in genetic information and cell function, characteristically making use of advanced tools and techniques of separation, manipulation, imaging, and analysis.
  • monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
  • neurobiologically — In terms of or by means of neurobiology.
  • not a happy bunny — deeply dissatisfied or discontented
  • passamaquoddy bay — an inlet of the Bay of Fundy, between Maine and New Brunswick, at the mouth of the St. Croix River.
  • peacock butterfly — a European nymphalid butterfly, Inachis io, having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot
  • polyvinyl butyral — a white, water-insoluble, polyvinyl acetal made with butyraldehyde, used chiefly as an interlayer in the manufacture of safety glass.
  • probability curve — a curve that describes the distribution of probability over the values of a random variable.
  • product liability — the responsibility of a manufacturer for injury or loss caused by its product.
  • quality paperback — a softbound book that is usually larger and more expensive than a mass market paperback and is sold primarily in bookstores as a trade book.
  • rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • safety in numbers — If you say that there is safety in numbers, you mean that you are safer doing something if there are a lot of people doing it rather than doing it alone.
  • say the unsayable — to express an opinion thought to be too controversial to mention
  • shubra al khaymah — a city in NE Egypt, a Cairo suburb.
  • sodium pyroborate — borax1 .
  • southeast by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of southeast. Abbreviation: SEbE.
  • squaw huckleberry — deerberry.
  • statue of liberty — a large copper statue, on Liberty Island, in New York harbor, depicting a woman holding a burning torch: designed by F. A. Bartholdi and presented to the U.S. by France; unveiled 1886.
  • subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
  • subsidiary ledger — (in accounting) a ledger containing a group of detailed and related accounts the total of which is summarized in the control account.
  • sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
  • sunday observance — the fact of keeping Sunday as a special day when people go to church
  • supervisory board — a board of management of which nonmanagerial workers are members, having supervisory powers over some aspects of management decision-making
  • symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
  • tapestry brussels — a carpet made with three-ply or four-ply worsted yarn drawn up in uncut loops to form a pattern over the entire surface (body Brussels) or made of worsted or woolen yarns on which a pattern is printed (tapestry Brussels)
  • the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
  • the buckeye state — a nickname for Ohio
  • thyestean banquet — a banquet at which human flesh is served
  • understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • unlawful assembly — a meeting of three or more people with the intent of carrying out any unlawful purpose
  • vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
  • vestibular system — the sensory mechanism in the inner ear that detects movement of the head and helps to control balance
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