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15-letter words containing b, o, u, n, c

  • ab urbe condita — from the founding of the city (Rome, about 753 b.c.). Abbreviation: A.U.C.
  • above suspicion — in such a position that no guilt may be thought or implied, esp through having an unblemished reputation
  • account balance — a figure stating how much money is in a bank account; it can be in debit or in credit
  • account payable — a current liability account showing amounts payable by a firm to suppliers for purchases of materials, stocks, or services on credit
  • accountableness — the condition of being answerable or accountable
  • african buffalo — Cape buffalo.
  • airing cupboard — In British houses, an airing cupboard is a warm cupboard where you put clothes and other things that have been washed and partly dried, to make sure they are completely dry.
  • alder buckthorn — a Eurasian rhamnaceous shrub, Frangula alnus, with small greenish flowers and black berry-like fruits
  • antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • autocannibalism — The eating of part of one's own body.
  • backup rotation — (operating system)   Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • basic education — (in India) education in which all teaching is correlated with the learning of a craft
  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • bessel function — one of several transcendental functions, usually represented as power series, that are solutions to a group of related differential equations.
  • bicycle touring — the activity of touring on a bicycle
  • bioaccumulation — the process in which industrial waste, toxic chemicals, etc. gradually accumulate in living tissue
  • bioastronautics — the study of the effects of space flight on living organisms
  • bioluminescence — the production of light by living organisms as a result of the oxidation of a light-producing substance (luciferin) by the enzyme luciferase: occurs in many marine organisms, insects such as the firefly, etc
  • biscuit tortoni — an individual portion of tortoni, frozen and served in a small cup, often topped with ground almonds.
  • bishop auckland — a town in N England, in central Durham: seat of the bishops of Durham since the 12th century: light industries. Pop: 24 764 (2001)
  • bituminous coal — a soft black coal, rich in volatile hydrocarbons, that burns with a smoky yellow flame. Fixed carbon content: 46–86 per cent; calorific value: 1.93 × 107 – 3.63 × 107 J/kg
  • black horehound — a hairy unpleasant-smelling chiefly Mediterranean plant, Ballota nigra, having clusters of purple flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
  • black mountains — a mountain range running from N Monmouthshire and SE Powys (Wales) to SW Herefordshire (England). Highest peak: Waun Fach, 811 m (2660 ft)
  • blockade runner — a person, ship etc that tries to carry goods through a blockade
  • blockade-runner — a ship or person that passes through a blockade.
  • blueback salmon — sockeye salmon.
  • bodily function — A person's bodily functions are the normal physical processes that regularly occur in their body, particularly the ability to urinate and defecate.
  • bone conduction — the transmission of sound vibrations to the internal ear through the cranial bones (opposed to air conduction).
  • book of account — a book to keep accounts in; ledger
  • booster cushion — an extra seat or cushion placed on an existing seat for a child to sit on in a car
  • borough council — a local government body elected by a borough
  • bourbon biscuit — a rich chocolate-flavoured biscuit with a chocolate-cream filling
  • boustrophedonic — of or relating to lines written in opposite directions
  • branchial pouch — one of a series of rudimentary outcroppings of the inner pharyngeal wall, corresponding to the branchial grooves on the surface.
  • branchiostegous — branchiostegal.
  • british council — an organization founded (1934) to extend the influence of British culture and education throughout the world
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
  • bucket conveyor — a conveyor consisting of an endless chain with a series of buckets attached at regular intervals, used for moving ore, gravel, grain, or other bulk materials.
  • buffalo currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes odoratum, of the central U.S., having showy, drooping clusters of fragrant yellow flowers and edible black fruit.
  • business office — the office where the financial transactions, bookkeeping, etc. for a firm or institution are carried on
  • business school — A business school is a school or college which teaches business subjects such as economics and management.
  • buy-back option — the option for a company to buy some or all of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed
  • by all accounts — according to everyone
  • campaign button — a disk-shaped pin worn by a supporter of a political candidate, usually bearing the name of the candidate and often a slogan or the candidate's picture.
  • cannot help but — to be unable to do anything else except
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.

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