15-letter words containing b, u, r, n, o, s
- albemarle sound — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE North Carolina. Length: about 96 km (60 miles)
- anthony burgess — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
- antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
- atrabiliousness — The state or quality of being characterized by melancholy or glumness.
- barry mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria: part of the Australian Alps
- be snowed under — to be overwhelmed, esp with paperwork
- beast of burden — A beast of burden is an animal such as an ox or a donkey that is used for carrying or pulling things.
- beurre noisette — a sauce of butter cooked until golden or nut brown, sometimes flavored with capers, vinegar, herbs, etc.
- bioastronautics — the study of the effects of space flight on living organisms
- biscuit tortoni — an individual portion of tortoni, frozen and served in a small cup, often topped with ground almonds.
- booster cushion — an extra seat or cushion placed on an existing seat for a child to sit on in a car
- borough-english — (until 1925) a custom in certain English boroughs whereby the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers
- bourbon biscuit — a rich chocolate-flavoured biscuit with a chocolate-cream filling
- boustrophedonic — of or relating to lines written in opposite directions
- bowstring truss — a structural truss consisting of a curved top chord meeting a bottom chord at each end.
- branchiostegous — branchiostegal.
- british council — an organization founded (1934) to extend the influence of British culture and education throughout the world
- bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
- buffer solution — a solution to which a salt of a weak acid or base has been added
- bulimia nervosa — a disorder characterized by compulsive overeating followed by vomiting: sometimes associated with anxiety about gaining weight
- bullnose header — bull header (def 1).
- bullnose-header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
- bureau of mines — a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1910, that studies the nation's mineral resources and inspects mines.
- business person — Business people are people who work in business.
- button mushroom — Button mushrooms are small mushrooms used in cooking.
- cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
- chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
- combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
- corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
- counterbalances — Plural form of counterbalance.
- countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
- countersubjects — Plural form of countersubject.
- debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
- debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
- destruct button — a button that, when pressed, causes a missile or rocket to destruct
- discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
- do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
- double in brass — 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.
- double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- 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.
- fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
- flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
- ground observer — a person stationed in a position on the ground to watch, follow, and report on flights of aircraft, especially of enemy aircraft.
- groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
- harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- ibero-maurusian — of or relating to an Epipaleolithic culture of northwestern Africa that preceded the Capsian culture and was once erroneously thought to have originated in southwestern Europe; characterized by the use of backed bladelets, occupation of the maritime plain, and the hunting of the Barbary sheep.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
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