17-letter words containing b, u, n, y
- republic of yemen — Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Capital: Aden.
- rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- safety in numbers — If you say that there is safety in numbers, you mean that you are safer doing something if there are a lot of people doing it rather than doing it alone.
- say the unsayable — to express an opinion thought to be too controversial to mention
- subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
- sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
- sunday observance — the fact of keeping Sunday as a special day when people go to church
- symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
- synchronous orbit — an orbit in which the orbital period of a satellite is identical to the spin period of the central body
- the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
- theory of numbers — number theory.
- thyestean banquet — a banquet at which human flesh is served
- to knit your brow — If you knit your brows or knit your eyebrows, you frown because you are angry or worried.
- turbidity current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
- understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- unintelligibility — the quality of being unintelligible
- unlawful assembly — a meeting of three or more people with the intent of carrying out any unlawful purpose
- vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication