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15-letter words containing b, i, n, t, u, r

  • counting number — natural number
  • country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
  • figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
  • flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
  • forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • giant water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
  • gutenberg bible — an edition of the Vulgate printed at Mainz before 1456, ascribed to Gutenberg and others: probably the first large book printed with movable type.
  • harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
  • in/into trouble — If someone is in trouble, they are in a situation in which a person in authority is angry with them or is likely to punish them because they have done something wrong.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
  • inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
  • interambulacral — relating to, or situated between, interambulacra
  • interambulacrum — the area between two of an echinoderm's ambulacra
  • internet number — internet address
  • intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
  • invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • job opportunity — an opportunity of employment
  • job requirement — a quality or qualification that you must have in order to be suitable for a certain job
  • leibnitz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
  • lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • maxilloturbinal — (anatomy) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.
  • member function — A method in C++.
  • misdistribution — Incorrect or unfair distribution.
  • motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
  • multi-binprolog — (language)   A multi-threaded Linda-style parallel extension to BinProlog for Solaris 2.3. Version: 3.30.
  • negative number — a number that is less than 0
  • non-contributor — a person who contributes money, assistance, etc.
  • non-putrescible — liable to become putrid.
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