15-letter words containing b, u, n, t, a
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
- football ground — an area of land where football games are played
- fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
- francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
- functionability — functional (def 3).
- galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
- giant water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
- go for a burton — to be broken, useless, or lost
- guaranteed bond — a bond issued by a corporation in which payment of the principal, interest, or both is guaranteed by another corporation.
- gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
- guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
- harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
- harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
- hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- in all but name — If you say that a situation exists in all but name, you mean that it is not officially recognized even though it exists.
- in-and-out bond — a stonework or brickwork bond having headers and stretchers alternating vertically.
- incalculability — The quality or state of being incalculable.
- incommutability — The quality or state of being incommutable.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
- indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
- inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
- insubstantially — In an insubstantial manner.
- interambulacral — relating to, or situated between, interambulacra
- interambulacrum — the area between two of an echinoderm's ambulacra
- invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
- justifiableness — Justifiability.
- lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
- lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
- lumbar puncture — Medicine/Medical. puncture into the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, in the lumbar region, and withdrawal of spinal fluid, performed for diagnosis of the fluid, injection of dye for imaging, or administration of anesthesia or medication.
- luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
- magnetic bubble — a tiny mobile magnetized area within a magnetic material, the basis of one type of solid-state storage medium (magnetic bubble memory)
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
- maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- manual alphabet — a set of finger configurations corresponding to the letters of the alphabet, used by the deaf in fingerspelling.
- maxilloturbinal — (anatomy) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.
- moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
- most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
- mount blackburn — a mountain in SE Alaska, the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5037 m (16 523 ft)
- mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
- mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae