14-letter words containing b, u, s, l, i
- leibniz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
- liability suit — a claim for damages based on the plaintiff's claim of the defendant's liability
- libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
- limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
- miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- nil nisi bonum — de mortuis nil nisi bonum
- non-absolutist — the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.
- non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
- noncombustible — not flammable.
- nonjusticiable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
- nonsustainable — Not sustainable.
- nursing bottle — a bottle with a rubber nipple, from which an infant sucks milk, water, etc.
- oblique stroke — (character) "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
- omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.
- omnibus volume — a collection of works by one author or several works on a similar topic, reprinted in one volume
- piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
- plastic bullet — A plastic bullet is a large bullet made of plastic, which is intended to make people stop rioting, rather than to kill people.
- pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
- plumbous oxide — litharge.
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
- public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
- public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
- public statute — public law (def 1).
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- quadrisyllabic — a word or poetic meter with four syllables
- quadrisyllable — a word of four syllables.
- rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- rebelliousness — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
- ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.