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16-letter words containing b, u, s

  • cute as a button — very sweet, adorable
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • designer stubble — (on a man) facial hair that is carefully trimmed to give what is thought to be an attractive rugged slightly unshaven look
  • destructibleness — The quality of being destructible.
  • dimension lumber — building lumber cut to standard or specified sizes.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discussion board — a website or section of a website that is used for public discussion of a specific topic and on which users can submit or read messages: You should post your questions on a parenting message board and get support from other parents.
  • disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
  • distributed term — a term applying equally to every member of the class it designates, as doctors in no doctors are overworked
  • distributionally — In a distributional manner.
  • distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • dominus vobiscum — the Lord be with you.
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • double solitaire — a game of solitaire for two persons, each player usually having a pack and layout but pooling foundations with the opponent.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
  • equidistribution — An equal distribution.
  • fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
  • filterable virus — a virus particle small enough to pass through a filter of diatomaceous earth or porcelain, which will not pass bacteria: chiefly historical or an informal indicator of size, as synthetic membrane filters now permit passage of the smallest virus.
  • first-time buyer — someone who is buying his or her first house
  • fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
  • forbush decrease — the sudden decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays after an increase in solar activity.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
  • gentlemen's club — a private social club whose members were traditionally aristocratic males
  • get up sb's nose — If you say that someone or something gets up your nose, you mean that they annoy you.
  • globular cluster — a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic center.
  • ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • gulf of san blas — an inlet of the Caribbean on the N coast of Panama
  • hairbrush cactus — a stout, spiny cactus, Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum, of Mexico, having white flowers and bristly fruits sometimes used locally as combs.
  • have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
  • heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
  • horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
  • hubble telescope — a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges
  • humanly possible — feasible, practical
  • hypersusceptible — hypersensitive (def 2).
  • immeasurableness — The state or condition of being immeasurable.
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
  • incombustibility — The quality or state of being incombustible.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
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