14-letter words containing b, u, s, i, n
- business reply — a form of mail, as a postcard, letter, or envelope, usually sent as an enclosure, and which can be mailed back by respondents without their having to pay postage.
- businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
- businessperson — Businesspeople are people who work in business.
- christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- circumbendibus — a circumlocution
- circumscribing — Present participle of circumscribe.
- colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
- confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
- constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
- consubstantial — (esp of the three persons of the Trinity) regarded as identical in substance or essence though different in aspect
- council bluffs — city in SW Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebr.: pop. 58,000
- cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
- custodian bank — A custodian bank is a bank that holds customer assets in safety.
- cybersquatting — Cybersquatting involves buying an Internet domain name that might be wanted by another person, business, or organization with the intention of selling it to them and making a profit.
- diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
- disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disattribution — an act or process of invalidating the attribution of something, for example of a work of art to a particular artist
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- distributional — an act or instance of distributing.
- double density — floppy disk
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
- funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- hebetudinosity — mental dullness; insipidity
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- husein ibn-ali — 1856–1931, 1st king of Hejaz 1916–24.
- impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
- in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
- in sb's honour — If something is arranged or happens in someone's honour, it is done specially to show appreciation of them.
- incense burner — container in which fragrance is burned
- inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
- inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
- indestructable — Misspelling of indestructible.
- indestructible — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
- indestructibly — In a way or to an extent that is indestructible.
- inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.