16-letter words containing b, u, s, y
- mesembryanthemum — any of various chiefly Old World plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having thick, fleshy leaves and often showy flowers.
- mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
- montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
- paint-by-numbers — formulaic; showing no original thought or creativity
- public schoolboy — a boy attending a public school, or a man who attended one
- raster subsystem — (graphics) The part of a graphics system concerned with an image after it has been transformed and scaled to screen coordinates. It includes scan conversion and display.
- reserve buoyancy — the difference between the volume of a hull below the designed waterline and the volume of the hull below the lowest opening incapable of being made watertight.
- rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
- sb will be lucky — If you say that someone will be lucky to do or get something, you mean that they are very unlikely to do or get it, and will definitely not do or get any more than that.
- scarborough lily — a plant, Vallota speciosa, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of funnel-shaped, scarlet flowers.
- security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
- southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
- squeaky-bum time — the tense final matches in the race to a league championship, esp from the point of view of the leaders
- strawberry guava — a shrub or small tree, Psidium littorale, of the myrtle family, native to Brazil, having smooth, grayish-brown bark, leathery leaves, white flowers, and edible, white-fleshed, purplish-red fruit.
- strawberry shrub — Carolina allspice
- substitutability — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- sulfur butterfly — any of various yellow or orange butterflies of the family Pieridae.
- synthetic cubism — the late phase of cubism, characterized chiefly by an increased use of color and the imitation or introduction of a wide range of textures and material into painting.
- synthetic rubber — any of several substances similar to natural rubber in properties and uses, produced by the polymerization of an unsaturated hydrocarbon, as butylene or isoprene, or by the copolymerization of such hydrocarbons with styrene, butadiene, or the like.
- take by surprise — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
- tertiary bursary — a noncompetitive award granted to all pupils who have passed a university entrance examination
- the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
- the easter bunny — the rabbit that brings Easter eggs
- to cut both ways — If you say that something cuts both ways, you mean that it can have two opposite effects, or can have both good and bad effects.
- tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.