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

  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • dominus vobiscum — the Lord be with you.
  • 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 precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • double solitaire — a game of solitaire for two persons, each player usually having a pack and layout but pooling foundations with the opponent.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
  • 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
  • fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
  • forbush decrease — the sudden decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays after an increase in solar activity.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • get up sb's nose — If you say that someone or something gets up your nose, you mean that they annoy you.
  • globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
  • 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 san blas — an inlet of the Caribbean on the N coast of Panama
  • have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
  • horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
  • hubble telescope — a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges
  • 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.
  • jacques bonhomme — the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.
  • jude the obscure — a novel (1895) by Thomas Hardy.
  • julius rosenberg — Alfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
  • kirribilli house — the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister
  • 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.
  • leaps and bounds — You can use in leaps and bounds or by leaps and bounds to emphasize that someone or something is improving or increasing quickly and greatly.
  • liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
  • limited-stop bus — a bus which only stops at a small number of predetermined stops, rather than on request
  • line of business — profession, trade: field
  • louise bourgeois — Léon Victor Auguste [ley-awn veek-tawr oh-gyst] /leɪˈɔ̃ vikˈtɔr oʊˈgyst/ (Show IPA), 1851–1925, French statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1920.
  • medulloblastomas — Plural form of medulloblastoma.
  • metes and bounds — the precisely described boundary lines of a parcel of land, as found in a deed
  • mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
  • mobutu sese seko — (Joseph-Désiré Mobutu) 1930–97, Zairian political leader: president 1965–97.
  • montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
  • mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
  • 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
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