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19-letter words containing b, a, u, g

  • negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
  • neighbourhood watch — a scheme under which members of a community agree together to take responsibility for keeping an eye on each other's property, as a way of preventing crime
  • non-distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • parliament building — structure housing legislative offices
  • pseudo-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • put on the feed bag — Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.
  • registration number — number on vehicle licence plate
  • republique malgache — French name of Malagasy Republic.
  • standing broad jump — a jump for distance from a standing position.
  • strawberry geranium — a plant, Saxifraga stolonifera (or S. sarmentosa), of the saxifrage family, native to eastern Asia, that has rounded, variegated leaves and numerous threadlike stolons and is frequently cultivated as a houseplant.
  • submandibular gland — either of a pair of salivary glands located one on each side of and beneath the lower jaw.
  • subsistence farming — farming whose products are intended to provide for the basic needs of the farmer, with little surplus for marketing.
  • tarnished plant bug — a bug, Lygus lineolaris, of the family Miridae, that is a common and widely distributed pest of alfalfa and other legumes and of peach and other fruit trees.
  • the bluegrass state — Kentucky
  • to break new ground — If you break new ground, you do something completely different or you do something in a completely different way.
  • to give sb a leg up — to help with climbing
  • traveling-wave tube — an electron tube used in microwave communications systems, having an electron beam directed coaxially through a wire helix to produce amplification.
  • turbo-ramjet engine — a combination engine that can be operated as a turbojet or ramjet engine.
  • zero-base budgeting — a process in government and corporate finance of justifying an overall budget or individual budgeted items each fiscal year or each review period rather than dealing only with proposed changes from a previous budget. Abbreviation: ZBB.
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