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15-letter words containing b, u, y, d

  • adygei republic — a constituent republic of SW Russia, bordering on the Caucasus Mountains: chiefly agricultural but with some mineral resources. Capital: Maikop. Pop: 447 000 (2002). Area: 7600 sq km (2934 sq miles)
  • anybody's guess — a person of some importance: If you're anybody, you'll receive an invitation.
  • argyll and bute — a council area in W Scotland on the Atlantic Ocean: in 1975 the historical counties of Argyllshire and Bute became part of Strathclyde region; in 1996 they were reinstated as a single unitary authority. Argyll and Bute is mountainous and includes the islands of Bute, Mull, Islay, and Jura. Administrative centre: Lochgilphead. Pop: 91 300 (2003 est). Area: 6930 sq km (2676 sq miles)
  • audubon society — a North American organization devoted to the conservancy of birds
  • basidiomycetous — belonging or pertaining to the basidiomycetes.
  • benzyl fluoride — a colorless liquid, C 7 H 7 F, used in organic synthesis.
  • beyond question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • big muddy river — a river in SW Illinois, flowing SW into the Mississippi. About 120 miles (195 km) long.
  • bloody butchers — a hardy plant, Trillium sessile, common from New York to Georgia and westward, having stalkless, purple or green flowers.
  • blue-eyed grass — any of various mainly North American iridaceous marsh plants of the genus Sisyrinchium that have grasslike leaves and small flat starlike blue flowers
  • bodily function — A person's bodily functions are the normal physical processes that regularly occur in their body, particularly the ability to urinate and defecate.
  • bury st edmunds — a market town in E England, in Suffolk. Pop: 36 218 (2001)
  • butterfly wedge — a wooden fastening in the form of a double dovetail for joining two boards at their edges.
  • cranberry gourd — a South American vine, Abobra tenuifolia, of the gourd family, having deeply lobed, ovate leaves and bearing a berrylike scarlet fruit.
  • cry blue murder — to make an outcry
  • destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
  • disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
  • distinguishably — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • double jeopardy — the subjecting of a person to a second trial or punishment for the same offense for which the person has already been tried or punished.
  • ferromolybdenum — a ferroalloy containing up to 60 percent molybdenum.
  • hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
  • horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
  • hybrid computer — a computer system containing both analog and digital hardware.
  • hydraulic brake — a brake operated by fluid pressures in cylinders and connecting tubular lines.
  • hydroxybutyrate — (chemistry) any salt or ester of hydroxybutyric acid, but especially of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
  • indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
  • indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
  • indissolubility — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • 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.
  • keyboard plaque — (jargon)   The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • 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).
  • punch the bundy — to start work
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • reynolds number — a dimensionless number, vρl/η, where v is the fluid velocity, ρ the density, η the viscosity and l a dimension of the system. The value of the number indicates the type of fluid flow
  • 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
  • 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.
  • sound symbolism — a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
  • subsidiary cell — Immunology. any of various cells of the immune system that work with T or B cells to initiate a specific immune response.
  • subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
  • to do your best — If you do your best or try your best to do something, you try as hard as you can to do it, or do it as well as you can.
  • unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.

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