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16-letter words containing b, e, n, u, t, s

  • disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
  • equidistribution — An equal distribution.
  • fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
  • gentlemen's club — a private social club whose members were traditionally aristocratic males
  • get up sb's nose — If you say that someone or something gets up your nose, you mean that they annoy you.
  • ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • indisputableness — The property of being indisputable.
  • inexhaustibility — not exhaustible; incapable of being depleted: an inexhaustible supply.
  • inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • insusceptibility — not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of or to): insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection.
  • isobutyl nitrite — butyl nitrite.
  • labour relations — Labour relations refers to the relationship between employers and employees in industry, and the political decisions and laws that affect it.
  • labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
  • lesbian cymatium — cyma reversa.
  • liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
  • like gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • mesembryanthemum — any of various chiefly Old World plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having thick, fleshy leaves and often showy flowers.
  • metes and bounds — the precisely described boundary lines of a parcel of land, as found in a deed
  • montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
  • nitrous bacteria — bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrites in the soil
  • obsequent stream — a stream flowing in a direction opposite to that of the dip of the local strata.
  • obstreperousness — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
  • oversubscription — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
  • paint-by-numbers — formulaic; showing no original thought or creativity
  • pre-subscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • public relations — (used with a plural verb) the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.
  • questionableness — The state or condition of being questionable; dubiousness.
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • reasonable doubt — law: grounds for believing sb is innocent
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • 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).
  • san buenaventura — a city in SW California.
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
  • 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-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • self-subsistence — the state or fact of subsisting.
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