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16-letter words containing b, o, l, a, n

  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • tablets of stone — Stone is used in expressions such as set in stone and tablets of stone to suggest that an idea or rule is firm and fixed, and cannot be changed.
  • teachable moment — a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general: Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
  • tell one's beads — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • tintinnabulation — the ringing or sound of bells.
  • tracheobronchial — of, relating to, or affecting the trachea and bronchi.
  • unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
  • unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
  • uncontradictable — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
  • uncountable noun — An uncountable noun is the same as an uncount noun.
  • uncountable-noun — a noun, as water, electricity, or happiness, that typically refers to an indefinitely divisible substance or an abstract notion, and that in English cannot be used, in such a sense, with the indefinite article or in the plural.
  • under bare poles — (of a sailing vessel) with no sails set
  • unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • unimpressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • unreasonableness — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
  • vegetable sponge — loofah (def 2).
  • vertebral column — spinal column.
  • vocabulary entry — (in dictionaries) a word, phrase, abbreviation, symbol, affix, name, etc., listed with its definition or explanation in alphabetical order or listed for identification after the word from which it is derived or to which it is related.
  • volunteer bureau — an agency that matches up people wishing to do voluntary work with appropriate voluntary organizations
  • wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
  • wilson's warbler — a North American warbler, Wilsonia pusilla, having yellow plumage and a black patch on top of the head.
  • woodland caribou — a variety of caribou inhabiting the bogs and forests of eastern Canada, having large, palmate antlers.
  • world bank group — the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association, whose headquarters are all in Washington
  • yablonovyy range — a mountain range in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, E of Lake Baikal.
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