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14-letter words containing b, l, u, n

  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • honourableness — Alternative spelling of honorableness.
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • husein ibn-ali — 1856–1931, 1st king of Hejaz 1916–24.
  • image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
  • immunoblotting — The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
  • immunoglobulin — any of several classes of structurally related proteins that function as antibodies or receptors and are found in plasma and other body fluids and in the membrane of certain cells. Compare IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, IgM.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
  • incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
  • incommunicably — In an incommunicable manner or fashion.
  • inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
  • indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
  • indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
  • indian buffalo — a member of the cattle tribe, Bubalus bubalis, of swampy regions of S Asia, having widely spreading back-curving horns. Domesticated forms are used as draught animals
  • indubitability — that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
  • ineluctability — The state or condition of being ineluctable.
  • infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
  • innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
  • inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • insuppressible — incapable of being suppressed; irrepressible: his insuppressible humor.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
  • john q. public — the average or typical U.S. citizen: an entertainment aimed at Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public.
  • journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
  • kiln run brick — any of various bricks of sufficient hardness to be exposed to the weather.
  • labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • lake bangweulu — a shallow lake in NE Zambia, discovered by David Livingstone, who died there in 1873. Area: about 9850 sq km (3800 sq miles), including swamps
  • land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • leibniz'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
  • libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
  • licence number — an identifying number on a licence or licence plate that identifies it with the owner
  • license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
  • liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
  • louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • lumbersomeness — the state of being lumbersome
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
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