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15-letter words containing b, u, g

  • object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
  • oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • office building — building containing offices
  • painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
  • petit bourgeois — a person who belongs to the petite bourgeoisie.
  • petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
  • plug compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plug-compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • public building — a building that belongs to a town or state, and is used by the public
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
  • quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • rotary debugger — (Commodore) Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colours, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage.
  • rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
  • rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
  • rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
  • ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
  • running bowline — a type of slipknot formed by running the standing line through the loop formed in a regular bowline
  • sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
  • saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
  • scrubbing brush — a handheld brush with short stiff bristles, used esp for scrubbing floors
  • sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
  • sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
  • sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • subintelligence — below average intelligence
  • subject catalog — a catalog having entries listed by subject only.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • subminimum wage — See example at subminimum (def 1).
  • suborganization — an organization within a larger organization
  • sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
  • suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
  • troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • tumbling barrel — a rotating drum for subjecting materials or small manufactured objects, loosely placed inside, to a tumbling action, as to mix materials or to polish objects by friction with one another or with an abrasive.
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
  • turbojet engine — a jet-propulsion engine in which air from the atmosphere is compressed for combustion by a turbine-driven compressor.
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