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

duccio di buoninsegna — c1255–1319? Italian painter.
electronic publishing — Electronic publishing is the publishing of documents in a form that can be read on a computer, for example as a CD-ROM.
employee contribution — money contributed by an employee to his or her employer's pension fund
employer contribution — money contributed by an employer to his or her employee's pension fund
equiangular hyperbola — a hyperbola with transverse and conjugate axes equal to each other.
european central bank — the central bank of the European Union, established in 1998 to oversee the process of European Monetary Union and subsequently to direct monetary policy within the countries using the euro
faculty board meeting — a meeting of the governing body of a faculty
first baron ashburton — Alexander, 1st Baron Ashburton, 1774–1848, British statesman.
gaussian distribution — normal distribution
george bryan brummell — George Bryan II, Beau Brummell.
give sb the runaround — If someone gives you the runaround, they deliberately do not give you all the information or help that you want, and send you to another person or place to get it.
gold bullion standard — a gold standard in which gold is not coined but may be purchased at a fixed price for foreign exchange.
goldbach's conjecture — the conjecture that every even number greater than two is the sum of two prime numbers
have someone's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
horizontal tabulation — (character) (tab, Control-I, HT, ASCII 9) A character which when displayed or printed causes the following character to be placed at the next "tabstop" - the column whose number is a multiple of the current tab width. Commonly (especially in Unix(?)) the tab width is eight, so, counting from the left margin (column zero), the tab stops are at columns 8, 16, 24, up to the width of the screen or page. A tab width of four or two is often preferred when indenting program source code to conserve indentation. Represented as "\t" in C, Unix, and derivatives.
hubble classification — a method of classifying galaxies depending on whether they are elliptical, spiral, barred spiral, or irregular
hypogammaglobulinemia — A type of immune disorder characterised by a reduction in all types of gamma globulins.
ibm customer engineer — (job) (CE) A hardware guy from IBM.
illinois bundleflower — a warm-season perennial, Desmanthus illinoensis, having small brown legumes and fernlike leaves, native to North American prairies, glades, and pastures.
joseph bonaparte gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia. Width: 360 km (225 miles)
jump on the bandwagon — do sth because it is popular
just a bunch of disks — (jargon, storage) (JBOD, or "Just a Bunch of Drives") A storage subsystems using multiple independent disk drives, as opposed to one form of RAID or another. For example, Unisys open storage provides JBOD in both SCSI and fibre channel interfaces.
knights of st columba — an international, semi-secret fraternal and charitable order for Catholic laymen, which originated in New Haven, Connecticut in 1882 (the Knights of Columbus)
language-based editor — language-sensitive editor
lap and shoulder belt — a car seat belt
loch ness monster bug — (humour) (Or "Bugfoot") A bug which cannot be reproduced or has only been sighted by one person. Named after the mythical creature claimed to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland.
luck was on sb's side — If you say that luck was on someone's side, you mean that they succeeded in something by chance as well as by their own efforts or ability.
mauna kea observatory — an astronomical observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, situated at an altitude of 13,600 feet (4145 meters).
national public radio — a nationwide network of nonprofit radio stations supported in part by U.S. government funds distributed by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, often affiliated with a public television station or educational institution. Abbreviation: NPR.
negotiable instrument — order or promise to pay money
negotiable securities — securities that are legally transferable in title from one party to another
night-blooming cereus — any of various cacti of the genera Hylocereus, Peniocereus, Nyctocereus, or Selenicereus, having large, usually white flowers that open at night.
northumberland strait — the part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence that separates Prince Edward Island from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. About 200 miles (320 km) long; 9–30 miles (15–48 km) wide.
not care a hang about — to not care the least bit about
oblique circular cone — a cone whose surface is generated by lines joining a fixed point to the points of a circle, the fixed point lying on a line that is not perpendicular to the circle at its center.
on o's best behaviour — If someone is on their best behaviour, they are trying very hard to behave well.
potassium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, slightly alkaline, salty-tasting, water-soluble powder, KHCO 3 , produced by the passage of carbon dioxide through an aqueous potassium carbonate solution: used in cookery as a leavening agent and in medicine as an antacid.
premium savings bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
printed circuit board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
proton-pump inhibitor — any of a group of drugs used to treat excessive secretion of acid in the stomach and any resulting ulcers. They block the enzyme (proton pump) in the cells of the gastric glands that secrete hydrochloric acid
public administration — the implementation of public policy, largely by the executive branch.
public transportation — means of fare-paying travel
public-key encryption — (cryptography) (PKE, Or "public-key cryptography") An encryption scheme, introduced by Diffie and Hellman in 1976, where each person gets a pair of keys, called the public key and the private key. Each person's public key is published while the private key is kept secret. Messages are encrypted using the intended recipient's public key and can only be decrypted using his private key. This is often used in conjunction with a digital signature. The need for sender and receiver to share secret information (keys) via some secure channel is eliminated: all communications involve only public keys, and no private key is ever transmitted or shared. Public-key encryption can be used for authentication, confidentiality, integrity and non-repudiation. See also knapsack problem.
push the panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
put someone's back up — to annoy someone
rayleigh distribution — (mathematics) A curve that yields a good approximation to the actual labour curves on software projects.
rectangular hyperbola — a hyperbola with perpendicular asymptotes
reverberatory furnace — See at reverberatory (def 2).
rub someone's nose in — to keep reminding someone of something unpleasant, as a mistake made
sampling distribution — the distribution of a statistic based on all possible random samples that can be drawn from a given population.

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