15-letter words containing b, u, t, y
- humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
- hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
- hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
- hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- incalculability — The quality or state of being incalculable.
- incommutability — The quality or state of being incommutable.
- indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
- indissolubility — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- insubstantially — In an insubstantial manner.
- invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- job opportunity — an opportunity of employment
- jubilate-sunday — Also called Jubilate Sunday. the third Sunday after Easter: so called from the first word of the 65th Psalm in the Vulgate, which is used as the introit.
- lithium battery — A lithium battery is a type of battery used for low-power, high-reliability, long-life applications, such as clocks, cameras and calculators.
- lutzow-holm bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Enderby Land.
- maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
- motorcycle club — a club of motorcycle enthusiasts
- non-culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- noncontributory — pertaining to or of the nature of contribution; contributing.
- not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
- obituary column — the division of a publication reserved for obituaries
- oxyphenbutazone — an anti-inflammatory treatment for arthritis or bursitis
- petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
- picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
- polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
- pubic directory — [NYU] (also "pube directory" /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) The "pub" (public) directory on a machine that allows FTP access. So called because it is the default location for SEX (software exchange).
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
- publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
- publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
- publicity stunt — something done to attract publicity
- punch the bundy — to start work
- put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
- quantifiability — (uncountable) The condition of being quantifiable.
- questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- rotary debugger — (Commodore) Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colours, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage.
- roundaboutility — roundaboutness
- rubaiyat stanza — a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- rusty blackbird — a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall.
- salisbury steak — ground beef, sometimes mixed with other foods, shaped like a hamburger patty and broiled or fried, often garnished or served with a sauce.
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.