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

  • investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
  • irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
  • japanese barberry — a thorny barberry, Berberis thunbergii, of Japan, having yellow flowers and bearing bright-red fruit, grown as a hedge plant.
  • job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
  • 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.
  • least upper bound — an upper bound that is less than or equal to all the upper bounds of a particular set. 3 is the least upper bound of the set consisting of 1, 2, 3. Abbr.: lub.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • mesembryanthemums — Plural form of mesembryanthemum.
  • 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.
  • naval observatory — an astronomical observatory located in Washington, D.C., operated by the U.S. government, and responsible for the U.S. time service.
  • nervous breakdown — (not in technical use) any disabling mental disorder requiring treatment.
  • 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.
  • nonunderstandable — Not understandable.
  • northeast by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of northeast. Abbreviation: NEbE.
  • nuclear submarine — undersea vessel powered by atomic energy
  • observation tower — lookout, observation point
  • opisthobranchiate — (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Opisthobranchiata.
  • performance bonus — a monetary bonus paid to staff who have performed well in their job
  • pillar-and-breast — room-and-pillar.
  • pressurized cabin — the cabin of an aircraft in which the air has been pressurized
  • quarterback sneak — a play in which the quarterback charges into the middle of the line, usually immediately after receiving the ball from the center.
  • 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.
  • russell, bertrand — Bertrand Russell
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • save one's breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
  • second balkan war — Balkan War (def 2).
  • secondary battery — storage battery.
  • secondary boycott — a boycott by union members against their employer in order to induce the employer to bring pressure on another company involved in a labor dispute with the union.
  • 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
  • square and rabbet — annulet (def 1).
  • 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.
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • 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.
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