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16-letter words containing b, e, g, i, n

  • nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
  • non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
  • nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.
  • norwegian buhund — a slightly-built medium-sized dog of a breed with erect pointed ears and a short thick tail carried curled over its back
  • number crunching — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
  • number-crunching — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
  • objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
  • oblique triangle — any triangle that does not have a right angle (contrasted with right triangle).
  • open box testing — white box testing
  • operating budget — money allocated to a project
  • organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
  • patent ambiguity — uncertainty of meaning created by the obscure or ambiguous language appearing on the face of a written instrument.
  • pigs in blankets — small frankfurters wrapped in dough and baked, served as an appetizer
  • publicity agency — an advertising agency; a firm that gets publicity for people or products
  • publishing house — a company that publishes books, pamphlets, engravings, or the like: a venerable publishing house in Boston.
  • regent bowerbird — a bowerbird, Sericulus chrysocephalus, the males of which have deep black plumage with brilliant golden head, neck, and wing patches and build elaborate bowers.
  • relative bearing — the bearing of an object, relative to the heading of a vessel or aircraft.
  • right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
  • ring-billed gull — a North American gull, Larus delawarensis, having a black ring around the bill.
  • robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
  • robin's-egg blue — a pale green to a light greenish-blue color.
  • saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • simon boccanegra — an opera (1857) by Giuseppe Verdi.
  • single-barrelled — (of a firearm) having a single barrel
  • slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
  • smooth breathing — a symbol (') used in the writing of Greek to indicate that the initial vowel over which it is placed is unaspirated.
  • sth rings a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
  • strike a bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • subliminal image — an image used in advertising, etc, that is too quick to be registered by the mind but is used to influence the viewer unconsciously
  • subsistence wage — the lowest wage upon which a worker and his or her family can survive
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • the foreign-born — immigrants of a country
  • tungsten carbide — a very hard, black or gray compound of tungsten and carbon, used in the manufacture of cutting and abrasion tools, dies, and wear-resistant machine parts.
  • website designer — creator of internet pages and sites
  • wellington boots — a leather boot with the front part of the top extending above the knee.
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