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17-letter words containing b, u, t, y, r

  • absolute majority — If a political party wins an absolute majority, they obtain more seats or votes than the total number of seats or votes gained by their opponents in an election.
  • absolute monarchy — a monarchy without constitutional limits
  • accrued liability — the amount of liability accumulated at a given time but not yet paid.
  • active vocabulary — the total number of words a person uses in his own speech and writing
  • age before beauty — (often said humorously when yielding precedence) older people take precedence over younger people
  • alfalfa butterfly — a sulfur butterfly, Colias eurytheme, having orange wings edged with black, the larvae of which feed on alfalfa and other legumes.
  • bankruptcy estate — all of the interests that a debtor has at the start of a bankruptcy case
  • behaviour therapy — any of various means of treating psychological disorders, such as desensitization, aversion therapy, and instrumental conditioning, that depend on the patient systematically learning new modes of behaviour
  • blue dot syndrome — (graphics, jargon)   The inability to display an image file or text embedded in an image file on your monitor.
  • blue sky software — eHelp Corporation
  • bluegrass country — region in central Ky. where there is much bluegrass
  • budgetary control — a system of managing a business by applying a financial value to each forecast activity. Actual performance is subsequently compared with the estimates
  • budgetary deficit — the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year
  • building industry — the economic sector comprising all companies involved in construction
  • bury the tomahawk — to stop fighting; make peace
  • butterfly bandage — a butterfly-shaped strip of adhesive medical tape used, when stitches are not required, to keep a deep cut or incision tightly closed while it heals
  • butterfly closure — an adhesive bandage resembling the shape of a butterfly's outstretched wings, used for closing minor cuts.
  • butterfly diagram — a graphical butterfly-shaped representation of the sunspot density on the solar disc in the 11-year sunspot cycle
  • buyers' inflation — inflation in which rising demand results in a rise in prices.
  • by return of post — by the next mail in the opposite direction
  • cabbage butterfly — a common white butterfly (Pieris rapae) whose green larvae feed upon cabbage and related plants
  • camberwell beauty — a nymphalid butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa, of temperate regions, having dark purple wings with cream-yellow borders
  • churchyard beetle — a blackish nocturnal ground beetle, Blaps mucronata, found in cellars and similar places
  • common of turbary — (in England) the legal right to cut peat for fuel on a common
  • gamma-ray burster — a source of gamma-ray bursts
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
  • indestructibility — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • intersubjectively — (philosophy) In an intersubjective way; between or among multiple subjects.
  • intersubjectivity — The state or condition of being intersubjective.
  • irreproducibility — The quality of not being reproducible.
  • manufacturability — The condition of being manufacturable.
  • mercury barometer — a barometer in which the weight of a column of mercury in a glass tube with a sealed top is balanced against that of the atmosphere pressing on an exposed cistern of mercury at the base of the mercury column, the height of the column varying with atmospheric pressure.
  • mesembryanthemums — Plural form of mesembryanthemum.
  • monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
  • on-the-job injury — On-the-job injury is bodily harm that is caused while you are doing your job.
  • peacock butterfly — a European nymphalid butterfly, Inachis io, having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot
  • petty bourgeoisie — the section of the middle class with the lowest social status, generally composed of shopkeepers, lower clerical staff, etc
  • plymouth brethren — a religious sect founded c. 1827, strongly Puritanical in outlook and prohibiting many secular occupations for its members. It combines elements of Calvinism, Pietism, and millenarianism, and has no organized ministry
  • polyvinyl butyral — a white, water-insoluble, polyvinyl acetal made with butyraldehyde, used chiefly as an interlayer in the manufacture of safety glass.
  • probability curve — a curve that describes the distribution of probability over the values of a random variable.
  • product liability — the responsibility of a manufacturer for injury or loss caused by its product.
  • publicity officer — a person who is employed to get publicity for an organization, or to provide information about it
  • quality paperback — a softbound book that is usually larger and more expensive than a mass market paperback and is sold primarily in bookstores as a trade book.
  • recumbent bicycle — a type of bicycle that is ridden in a reclining position
  • rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • safety in numbers — If you say that there is safety in numbers, you mean that you are safer doing something if there are a lot of people doing it rather than doing it alone.
  • slowly but surely — If you say that something is happening slowly but surely, you mean that it is happening gradually but it is definitely happening.
  • sodium pyroborate — borax1 .

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