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17-letter words containing b, a, s, i, n, r

  • job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
  • john of salisbury — c1115–80, English prelate and scholar.
  • lambda expression — (mathematics)   A term in the lambda-calculus denoting an unnamed function (a "lambda abstraction"), a variable or a constant. The pure lambda-calculus has only functions and no constants.
  • latent strabismus — the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.
  • learning-disabled — pertaining to or having a learning disability: a learning-disabled child.
  • lebesgue integral — an integral obtained by application of the theory of measure and more general than the Riemann integral.
  • limousine liberal — a wealthy left-wing person
  • lombrosian school — a school of criminology, promulgating the theories and employing the methods developed by Lombroso.
  • loose-leaf binder — a hard cover with metal rings inside which is used to hold loose pieces of paper
  • man's best friend — a dog, especially as a pet.
  • microdermabrasion — A cosmetic treatment in which the face is sprayed with exfoliant crystals to remove dead epidermal cells.
  • misunderstandable — Capable of being misunderstood.
  • nashville warbler — a North American wood warbler, Vermivora ruficapilla, having a gray head, an olive-green back, and yellow underparts.
  • neurofibromatosis — a dominantly inherited genetic disorder characterized by flat brown patches on the skin, neurofibromas of the skin and internal organs, and in some cases skeletal deformity.
  • nicholas bourbaki — the pseudonym of a group of mainly French mathematicians that, since 1939, has been producing a monumental work on advanced mathematics, Eléments de Mathématique
  • non-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.
  • nuclear submarine — undersea vessel powered by atomic energy
  • observation tower — lookout, observation point
  • old south arabian — a group of four closely related Semitic languages, having a writing system and used from about the eighth to the fifth centuries b.c. in the southern part of Arabia.
  • opisthobranchiate — (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Opisthobranchiata.
  • otto von bismarck — Otto von [ot-oh von;; German aw-toh fuh n] /ˈɒt oʊ vɒn;; German ˈɔ toʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–98, German statesman: first chancellor of modern German Empire 1871–90.
  • pillar-and-breast — room-and-pillar.
  • pittsburg landing — a village in SW Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: battle of Shiloh in 1862.
  • plains of abraham — a high plain adjoining the city of Quebec, Canada: battlefield where the English under Wolfe defeated the French under Montcalm in 1759.
  • pressurized cabin — the cabin of an aircraft in which the air has been pressurized
  • rack one's brains — to strain in mental effort, esp to remember something or to find the solution to a problem
  • rhode island bent — a European pasture grass, Agrostis tenuis, naturalized in North America, having red flower clusters.
  • roseate spoonbill — a tropical New World spoonbill, Ajaia ajaja, having rose-colored plumage and a bare head.
  • rubber-base paint — latex paint.
  • rubberman disease — Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
  • 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.
  • saint bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
  • salt-rising bread — a kind of bread leavened with a fermented mixture of salted milk, cornmeal, flour, sugar, and soda.
  • san francisco bay — a bay in W California: the harbor of San Francisco; connected with the Pacific by the Golden Gate strait. 50 miles (80 km) long; 3–12 miles (5–19 km) wide.
  • sandro botticelli — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • secondary rainbow — a faint rainbow formed by light rays that undergo two internal reflections in drops of rain, appearing above the primary rainbow and having its colors in the opposite order.
  • sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • squash vine borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Melittia satyriniformis, that bores into the stems of squash and related plants.
  • steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
  • stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • 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.
  • subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
  • subordinated debt — a debt that an unsecured creditor can only claim, in the event of a liquidation, after the claims of secured creditors have been paid
  • subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
  • substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
  • surrender to bail — to present oneself at court at the appointed time after having been on bail
  • synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
  • the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • to read sb's mind — If you can read someone's mind, you know what they are thinking without them saying anything.
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