13-letter words containing b, u, n, t
- lightning bug — firefly.
- loft building — a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.
- lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
- lunar orbiter — one of a series of space probes that orbited and photographed the moon in 1966 and 1967.
- manipulatable — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- midnight blue — Something that is midnight blue is a very dark blue colour, almost black.
- money to burn — more money than one needs
- mount gambier — a city in S Australia.
- mount lebanon — a town in SW Pennsylvania, SW of Pittsburgh.
- mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
- mountainboard — a type of skateboard specially designed for rough terrain and steep slopes, having four large wheels linked by a suspension system
- mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- multibuilding — involving multiple buildings
- multibusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- neuroblastoma — a malignant tumor of immature nerve cells that usually starts in the autonomic nervous system or adrenal gland and spreads quickly, most often affecting young children.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- news bulletin — a usually short news broadcast
- nightclubbing — Also, night club. an establishment for evening entertainment, generally open until the early morning, that serves liquor and usually food and offers patrons music, comedy acts, a floor show, or dancing; nightspot.
- non-ambiguity — doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner.
- non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
- non-imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- non-incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- non-reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- nonambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
- nondeductible — Not allowable as a deduction from income for the calculation of taxes.
- nonreturnable — not returnable.
- nonsubjective — Not subjective.
- notary public — a public officer or other person authorized to authenticate contracts, acknowledge deeds, take affidavits, protest bills of exchange, take depositions, etc.
- nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
- number theory — the study of integers and their relation to one another.
- obtrusiveness — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- octane number — (of gasoline) a designation of antiknock quality, numerically equal to the percentage of isooctane by volume in a mixture of isooctane and normal heptane that matches the given gasoline in antiknock characteristics.
- on the bounce — in succession; one after the other
- on the bubble — in a situation in which the outcome is uncertain but already in the process of being determined or decided
- on the button — a small disk, knob, or the like for sewing or otherwise attaching to an article, as of clothing, serving as a fastening when passed through a buttonhole or loop.
- on the double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- out and about — busy, active outside the home
- out of bounds — Sports. being beyond or passing the limits or boundaries of a field, course, etc., marking the area within which the ball, puck, or the like is legally in play.
- out on a limb — a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head and trunk, as a leg, arm, or wing: the lower limbs; artificial limbs.
- out-of-bounds — Sports. being beyond or passing the limits or boundaries of a field, course, etc., marking the area within which the ball, puck, or the like is legally in play.
- outward bound — (in Britain) a scheme to provide adventure training for young people
- outward-bound — headed in an outward direction, as toward foreign ports: We passed an outward-bound ship as we came into the harbor.
- over-abundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overexuberant — effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic; lavishly abundant: an exuberant welcome for the hero.
- peanut butter — a paste made from ground roasted peanuts, used as a spread or in cookery.
- perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.