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18-letter words containing b, i, t, o, u, s

  • productivity bonus — an extra payment made to workers for being more productive or yielding more favourable results than normal
  • pseudotuberculosis — an acute, sometimes fatal disease of rodents, birds, and other animals, including humans, caused by the bacterium Yersinia (Pasteurella) pseudotuberculosis, and characterized by the formation of nodules resembling those that result from tuberculosis.
  • rub shoulders with — to mix with socially or associate with
  • rubbish collection — the collection of domestic refuse for disposal
  • saturation bombing — intense area bombing intended to destroy everything in the target area.
  • sodium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, in powder or granules, NaHCO 3 , usually prepared by the reaction of soda ash with carbon dioxide or obtained from the intermediate product of the Solvay process by purification: used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium salts, baking powder, and beverages, as a laboratory reagent, as a fire extinguisher, and in medicine as an antacid.
  • sodium tetraborate — borax1 .
  • solubility product — the maximum number of undissociated ions, of an electrolyte in a saturated solution, capable at a given temperature of remaining in equilibrium with the undissolved phase of the solution.
  • sub-classification — to arrange in subclasses.
  • subatomic particle — physics:
  • subordinate clause — a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
  • supraorbital ridge — browridge.
  • transubstantiation — the changing of one substance into another.
  • urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
  • uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
  • westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
  • wood-burning stove — cooker: fueled by wood
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