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

  • enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
  • eustachian tube — part of the ear
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • family business — company owned and run by a family
  • field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
  • 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.
  • fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • 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.
  • founding member — A founding member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
  • francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
  • giant water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
  • ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • 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.
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • 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.
  • hindenburg line — a line of elaborate fortifications established by the German army in World War I, near the French-Belgian border, from Lille SE to Metz.
  • hot-bulb engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a heated bulb or cap for ignition.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
  • ibero-maurusian — of or relating to an Epipaleolithic culture of northwestern Africa that preceded the Capsian culture and was once erroneously thought to have originated in southwestern Europe; characterized by the use of backed bladelets, occupation of the maritime plain, and the hunting of the Barbary sheep.
  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
  • immunoglobulins — Plural form of immunoglobulin.
  • implausibleness — The quality of being implausible.
  • 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 all but name — If you say that a situation exists in all but name, you mean that it is not officially recognized even though it exists.
  • in honour bound — under a moral obligation
  • in-and-out bond — a stonework or brickwork bond having headers and stretchers alternating vertically.
  • 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.
  • incalculability — The quality or state of being incalculable.
  • incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • incommutability — The quality or state of being incommutable.
  • indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
  • indissolubility — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
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