16-letter words containing b, o, n, u, s, i
- discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discussion board — a website or section of a website that is used for public discussion of a specific topic and on which users can submit or read messages: You should post your questions on a parenting message board and get support from other parents.
- disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
- distributionally — In a distributional manner.
- do business with — trade or deal with
- dominus vobiscum — the Lord be with you.
- double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
- double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
- elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
- embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
- equidistribution — An equal distribution.
- fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
- have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
- incombustibility — The quality or state of being incombustible.
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- indissolubleness — The quality of being indissoluble.
- insurance broker — person who sells insurance policies
- isobutyl nitrite — butyl nitrite.
- julius rosenberg — Alfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
- labour relations — Labour relations refers to the relationship between employers and employees in industry, and the political decisions and laws that affect it.
- labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
- liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
- line of business — profession, trade: field
- mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
- neuroborreliosis — A disorder of the central nervous system caused by a spirochete of the genus Borrelia.
- nitrous bacteria — bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrites in the soil
- obstructionistic — a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
- oversubscription — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
- pre-subscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
- public relations — (used with a plural verb) the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.
- public transport — fare-paying travel
- publishing house — a company that publishes books, pamphlets, engravings, or the like: a venerable publishing house in Boston.
- put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
- questionableness — The state or condition of being questionable; dubiousness.
- rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
- redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
- robin's-egg blue — a pale green to a light greenish-blue color.
- santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
- self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
- sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
- sounding balloon — a balloon carrying instruments aloft to make atmospheric measurements, especially a radiosonde balloon.
- south burlington — a town in NW Vermont.
- southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
- subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.