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16-letter words containing b, o, u, n

  • communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
  • composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
  • constructibility — The condition of being constructible.
  • consubstantiated — Simple past tense and past participle of consubstantiate.
  • consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
  • cuban royal palm — a feather palm, Roystonea regia, of tropical America, having a trunk that is swollen in the middle, drooping leaves from 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5 meters) long, and small, round fruit.
  • curbstone broker — a broker in the early American stockmarket who did business in the street
  • cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
  • cut of one's jib — one's appearance or way of dressing
  • cute as a button — very sweet, adorable
  • debenture holder — a person or organization holds a debenture
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • deoxyribonucleic — (genetics) Of or pertaining to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or its derivatives.
  • dimension lumber — building lumber cut to standard or specified sizes.
  • direction number — the component of a vector along a given line; any number proportional to the direction cosines of a given line.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • 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 centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
  • double indemnity — a clause in a life-insurance or accident-insurance policy providing for payment of twice the face value of the policy in the event of accidental death.
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as in a hotel, for two persons sharing the same room: The rate is $35 per person, double occupancy, or $65, single occupancy.
  • double pneumonia — pneumonia affecting both lungs.
  • 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.
  • double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
  • el camino bignum — (humour)   /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
  • 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.
  • emotional labour — work that requires good interpersonal skills
  • equidistribution — An equal distribution.
  • fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • get into trouble — be punished for wrongdoing
  • get up sb's nose — If you say that someone or something gets up your nose, you mean that they annoy you.
  • global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
  • go out on a limb — say sth daring
  • great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
  • gulf of san blas — an inlet of the Caribbean on the N coast of Panama
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