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16-letter words containing b, u, r, l

  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • the urban league — a civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States
  • to bite your lip — If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances.
  • to blow your top — If someone blows their top, they become very angry about something.
  • tool builder kit — (tool)   (TBK) A product from IPSYS which allows users to develop CASE tools appropriate to any software engineering methodology.
  • trailing arbutus — Also called arbutus, mayflower. a creeping eastern North American plant, Epigaea repens, of the heath family, having leathery, oval leaves and terminal clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers.
  • turn a blind eye — pretend not to see sth
  • turntable ladder — a power-operated extending ladder mounted on a fire engine
  • ultra-liberalism — extremely liberal, especially in politics.
  • umbilical hernia — a hernia of the umbilicus.
  • un-reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
  • uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
  • uncontradictable — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
  • under bare poles — (of a sailing vessel) with no sails set
  • under one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • under sb's spell — If you are under someone 's spell, you are so fascinated by them that you cannot think about anything else.
  • undifferentiable — capable of being differentiated.
  • unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • unimpressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
  • unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • unreasonableness — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
  • ununderstandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • variable annuity — an annuity in which the premiums are invested chiefly in common stocks or other securities, the annuitant receiving payments based on the yield of the investments instead of in fixed amounts.
  • vascular cambium — cambium.
  • vegetable butter — any of various fixed vegetable fats resembling butter in consistency, as cocoa butter.
  • verbal auxiliary — an auxiliary verb, especially when considered as a member of a separate class of words used with verbs rather than as a special subclass of verbs.
  • vertebral column — spinal column.
  • vestibular nerve — the part of the auditory nerve in the inner ear that carries sensory information related to body equilibrium.
  • visible spectrum — the range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that is normally visible, from 380 to 760 nm.
  • vocabulary entry — (in dictionaries) a word, phrase, abbreviation, symbol, affix, name, etc., listed with its definition or explanation in alphabetical order or listed for identification after the word from which it is derived or to which it is related.
  • volunteer bureau — an agency that matches up people wishing to do voluntary work with appropriate voluntary organizations
  • vulcanized fiber — a leatherlike substance made by compression of layers of paper or cloth that have been treated with acids or zinc chloride, used chiefly for electric insulation.
  • wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
  • woodland caribou — a variety of caribou inhabiting the bogs and forests of eastern Canada, having large, palmate antlers.
  • world bank group — the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association, whose headquarters are all in Washington
  • your better half — If you talk about your better half or your other half you mean your wife, your husband, or the person of the opposite sex that you live with.
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