14-letter words containing b, u, n, t
- substantivized — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
- substitutional — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- suggestion box — receptacle for customers' comments
- sunburst clock — a clock with the pattern or design of a sun
- superabsorbent — extremely or unusually absorbent: superabsorbent fibers.
- superincumbent — lying or resting on something else.
- support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
- suspender belt — garter belt.
- suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
- sustainability — the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed.
- sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
- t distribution — Student's t distribution.
- table mountain — a mountain in the Republic of South Africa, near Cape Town. 3550 feet (1080 meters).
- tableau vivant — tableau (def 3).
- tabularization — the act of tabularizing
- taxable amount — the portion of your income or profits that is subject to tax
- terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
- test-tube skin — skin that has been grown in the laboratory from a patch of a person's skin, used for autografting, especially in the treatment of extensive burns.
- the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
- the honourable — a title of respect placed before a name: employed before the names of various officials in the English-speaking world, as a courtesy title in Britain for the children of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls, and in Parliament by one member speaking of another
- the unknowable — the ultimate reality that underlies all phenomena but cannot be known
- thenard's blue — cobalt blue.
- thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
- tintinnabulary — of bells or the ringing of bells
- tintinnabulate — to ring
- to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
- toluidine blue — a dark green powder, C15H16N3SCl·ZnCl2, used in dyeing textiles, as a biological stain, as a coagulant in medicine, etc.
- transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
- treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
- tubal ligation — a method of permanent sterilization for women, involving the surgical sealing of the fallopian tubes to prevent the ovum from passing from the ovary to the uterus.
- tubuai islands — a chain of small islands extending about 1400 km (850 miles) in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia; discovered by Captain Cook in 1777; annexed by France in 1880. Pop: 1979 (2002). Area: 173 sq km (67 sq miles)
- tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
- tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
- turbine engine — a rotary engine that converts kinetic energy of a moving fluid (water, steam, air, or combustion products of a fuel) into mechanical energy
- turbogenerator — a large electrical generator driven by a steam turbine
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- turbulent flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid varies irregularly.
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- ubiquitousness — existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent: ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.
- umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
- umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
- un-get-at-able — very difficult to get hold of or get close to
- un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- unalterability — the state or quality of not being alterable or not being able to be changed
- unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
- unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
- unattributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- unavailability — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
- unbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
- uncollectables — things that are not collectable