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14-letter words containing b, u, s, i, n

  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • test-tube skin — skin that has been grown in the laboratory from a patch of a person's skin, used for autografting, especially in the treatment of extensive burns.
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
  • transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
  • tubuai islands — a chain of small islands extending about 1400 km (850 miles) in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia; discovered by Captain Cook in 1777; annexed by France in 1880. Pop: 1979 (2002). Area: 173 sq km (67 sq miles)
  • tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
  • ubiquitousness — existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent: ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.
  • un-subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • unbusinesslike — conforming to, attending to, or characteristic of business.
  • unclassifiable — that cannot be categorized
  • unconscionable — not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.
  • unconscionably — not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.
  • undersubscribe — to subscribe for less of than is available, expected, or required: The concert series is undersubscribed and may be cancelled.
  • undiminishable — unable to be diminished
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
  • universal beam — a broad-flanged rolled steel joist suitable for a stanchion (axial load) or beam (bending load)
  • unmentionables — not mentionable; inappropriate, unfit, or improper for mention, as in polite conversation; unspeakable.
  • unquestionable — not open to question; beyond doubt or dispute; indisputable; undeniable; certain: an unquestionable fact.
  • unquestionably — not open to question; beyond doubt or dispute; indisputable; undeniable; certain: an unquestionable fact.
  • unrestrainable — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
  • unsaponifiable — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
  • unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
  • unsubordinated — noting or designating a debt obligation whose holder is placed in precedence below secured and general creditors: subordinated debentures.
  • unvanquishable — not able to be vanquished or overcome; unconquerable; undefeatable
  • upper sideband — the frequency band above the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
  • urban district — a minor administrative division in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, with local self-government by a district council, but lacking the charter of a borough.
  • urbanistically — of or relating to urbanism.
  • user-definable — (of a facility on a computer) that can be defined or varied by the user
  • Ústí nad labem — a port in the Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: textile and chemical industries. Pop: 95 000 (2005 est)
  • vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.
  • web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
  • whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
  • zingiberaceous — belonging to the Zingiberaceae, the ginger family of plants.
  • zinziberaceous — zingiberaceous.
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