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15-letter words containing b, u, r, n, s

  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • mourners' bench — a front row of seats at a revival meeting, for those who are to profess penitence
  • mucous membrane — a lubricating membrane lining an internal surface or an organ, as the alimentary, respiratory, and genitourinary canals.
  • neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
  • new brunswicker — a native or inhabitant of New Brunswick
  • non-putrescible — liable to become putrid.
  • not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
  • obstructionists — Plural form of obstructionist.
  • obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
  • opprobriousness — The state or condition of being opprobrious.
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
  • plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
  • put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
  • radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • reynolds number — a dimensionless number, vρl/η, where v is the fluid velocity, ρ the density, η the viscosity and l a dimension of the system. The value of the number indicates the type of fluid flow
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • robinson crusoe — Robinson, Robinson Crusoe.
  • rubaiyat stanza — a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.
  • rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
  • salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
  • saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
  • scribaciousness — the quality or state of being scribacious
  • scrubbing brush — a handheld brush with short stiff bristles, used esp for scrubbing floors
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • serous membrane — any of various thin membranes, as the peritoneum, that line certain cavities of the body and exude a serous fluid.
  • sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
  • siberian squill — a bulbous, Eurasian plant, Scilla siberica, of the lily family, having nodding, deep blue flowers.
  • silicone rubber — any of the synthetic rubbers made from silicone elastomers.
  • sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • sub-corporation — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
  • subcommissioner — a member of a subcommission
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
  • subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • sublapsarianism — infralapsarianism.
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