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14-letter words containing b, o, u, r, n

  • burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
  • bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
  • burying ground — a burial ground.
  • business hours — Business hours are the hours of the day in which a shop or a company is open for business.
  • businessperson — Businesspeople are people who work in business.
  • butterfly knot — a particularly resistant knot which resembles a butterfly and can take loads on both ends, as well as on the loop
  • button-through — (of a dress or skirt) fastened with buttons from top to hem
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • carbon capture — the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change
  • carbon neutral — A carbon neutral lifestyle, company, or activity does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
  • carbon-neutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
  • charlottenburg — a district of Berlin (of West Berlin until 1990), formerly an independent city. Pop: 315 473 (2005 est)
  • ciudad obregon — a city in W Mexico.
  • coconut butter — a solid form of coconut oil
  • colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
  • complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
  • conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
  • contact number — a person's telephone number
  • contributional — the act of contributing.
  • contributorily — In a contributory manner.
  • counter-boulle — contre-partie.
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
  • countersubject — (in a fugue) the theme in one voice that accompanies the statement of the subject in another
  • county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
  • court-bouillon — a stock made from root vegetables, water, and wine or vinegar, used primarily for poaching fish
  • cubic zirconia — a synthetic crystalline compound of zirconium oxide, fashioned to resemble diamonds, etc.
  • cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • debenture bond — a corporate bond unsecured by any mortgage, dependent on the credit of the issuer.
  • debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
  • deurbanization — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
  • disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
  • distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
  • do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
  • double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
  • exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
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