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17-letter words containing b, i, g, u, a, n

  • angostura bitters — a bitter aromatic tonic made from gentian and various spices and vegetable colourings, used as a flavouring in alcoholic drinks
  • be running scared — If you say that a person or group is running scared, you mean that they are frightened of what someone might do to them or what might happen.
  • bighorn mountains — range of the Rocky Mountains in N Wyo. and S Mont.: highest peak, 13,165 ft (4,013 m)
  • blue false indigo — a North American plant, Baptisia australis, of the legume family, having wedge-shaped leaflets and blue, clustered flowers.
  • bring up the rear — to be at the back in a procession, race, etc
  • brzesc nad bugiem — Polish name of Brest Litovsk.
  • buckingham palace — the London residence of the British sovereign: built in 1703, rebuilt by John Nash in 1821–36 and partially redesigned in the early 20th century
  • building labourer — an unskilled worker on construction sites
  • bushman's singlet — a sleeveless heavy black woollen singlet, used as working clothing by timber fellers
  • centrifugal brake — a safety mechanism on a hoist, crane, etc, that consists of revolving brake shoes that are driven outwards by centrifugal force into contact with a fixed brake drum when the rope drum revolves at excessive speed
  • contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
  • dagestan republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
  • fulgencio batista — Fulgencio [fool-hen-syaw] /fulˈhɛn syɔ/ (Show IPA), (Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar) 1901–73, Cuban military leader: dictator of Cuba 1934–40; president 1940–44, 1952–59.
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • greenland halibut — a flatfish, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, similar and related to the halibut
  • gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
  • i beg your pardon — You say 'Pardon?' or 'I beg your pardon?' or, in American English, 'Pardon me?' when you want someone to repeat what they have just said because you have not heard or understood it.
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • indistinguishable — not distinguishable.
  • indistinguishably — In an indistinguishable manner; so that separate components or differences cannot be discerned.
  • lebesgue integral — an integral obtained by application of the theory of measure and more general than the Riemann integral.
  • ligurian republic — the republic in NW Italy set up by Napoleon in 1797, incorporated into France in 1805, and united with the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1814.
  • neurobiologically — In terms of or by means of neurobiology.
  • numbering machine — a handheld device for stamping numbers onto objects
  • pittsburg landing — a village in SW Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: battle of Shiloh in 1862.
  • sanctions-busting — the deliberate disregarding of sanctions that are in force against a state, organization, etc
  • 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
  • substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
  • symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
  • turbinado (sugar) — a partially refined, granulated, pale-brown sugar obtained by washing raw sugar in a centrifuge until most of the molasses is removed
  • undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • universal algebra — (logic)   The model theory of first-order equational logic.
  • unix brain damage — Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-Unix system so that it will interoperate with Unix systems. The hack may qualify as "Unix brain damage" if the program conforms to published standards and the Unix program in question does not. Unix brain damage happens because it is much easier for other (minority) systems to change their ways to match non-conforming behaviour than it is to change all the hundreds of thousands of Unix systems out there. An example of Unix brain damage is a kluge in a mail server to recognise bare line feed (the Unix newline) as an equivalent form to the Internet standard newline, which is a carriage return followed by a line feed. Such things can make even a hardened jock weep.
  • user brain damage — (humour)   (UBD) A description (usually abbreviated) used to close a trouble report obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part. Compare pilot error; opposite: PBD; see also brain-damaged, PEBCAK.
  • vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
  • waitangi tribunal — (in New Zealand) a government tribunal empowered to examine and make recommendations on Māori claims under the Treaty of Waitangi
  • with guns blazing — If you come out with guns blazing or with all guns blazing, you put all your effort and energy into trying to achieve something.
  • working substance — a substance, usually a fluid, that undergoes changes in pressure, temperature, volume, or form as part of a process for accomplishing work.

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