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15-letter words containing b, u, m, i, n

  • noncommunicable — not communicable, especially with reference to a disease that is not transmitted through contact with an infected or afflicted person.
  • obituary column — the division of a publication reserved for obituaries
  • omnibus edition — a television or radio programme consisting of two or more programmes broadcast earlier in the week
  • opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • ram-air turbine — a small air-driven turbine fitted to an aircraft to provide power in the event of a failure of the normal systems
  • rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
  • redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
  • sodium benzoate — a white crystalline soluble compound used as an antibacterial and antifungal agent in preserving food (E211), as an antiseptic, and in making dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: (C6H5COO)Na
  • sound symbolism — a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
  • 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.
  • subalimentation — hypoalimentation.
  • subcommissioner — a member of a subcommission
  • sublapsarianism — infralapsarianism.
  • subminimum wage — See example at subminimum (def 1).
  • suboptimization — a situation which is less than optimal
  • suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
  • system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
  • 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.
  • uncircumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
  • unclimbableness — the quality or condition of being unclimbable
  • uncompanionable — not companionable or friendly; antisocial
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • unmanageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
  • untransmissible — intransmissible
  • uranium-bearing — containing or producing uranium
  • urban migration — the process of people moving from rural areas to cities
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