15-letter words containing c, a, r, n, u, b
- ab urbe condita — from the founding of the city (Rome, about 753 b.c.). Abbreviation: A.U.C.
- absence seizure — petit mal.
- abstract number — a number that does not designate the quantity of any particular kind of thing.
- african buffalo — Cape buffalo.
- airing cupboard — In British houses, an airing cupboard is a warm cupboard where you put clothes and other things that have been washed and partly dried, to make sure they are completely dry.
- alder buckthorn — a Eurasian rhamnaceous shrub, Frangula alnus, with small greenish flowers and black berry-like fruits
- ambulance nurse — a nurse who works as part of an ambulance crew
- ambulance train — a train designed to carry sick or injured people
- american beauty — a variety of hybrid, perennial red rose
- amicable number — either of a pair of positive integers in which each member is equal to the sum of the submultiples of the other, as 220 and 284.
- annulled branch — delayed control-transfer
- anti-republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- antibureaucracy — Opposed to bureaucracy.
- antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
- arabic numerals — the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and the 0 (zero) that originated in India; Hindu-Arabic numerals
- backup rotation — (operating system) Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
- badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
- balanced rudder — a rudder so designed that the center of water pressure on the forward face, when turned, lies about halfway along the length, minimizing the turning effort required.
- banana republic — Small, poor countries that are politically unstable are sometimes referred to as banana republics.
- banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
- bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
- bear animalcule — tardigrade (def 3).
- béarnaise sauce — a creamy sauce, esp. for meat or fish, made of butter and egg yolks and flavored with wine, vinegar, shallots, and herbs
- bioastronautics — the study of the effects of space flight on living organisms
- black horehound — a hairy unpleasant-smelling chiefly Mediterranean plant, Ballota nigra, having clusters of purple flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- blockade runner — a person, ship etc that tries to carry goods through a blockade
- blockade-runner — a ship or person that passes through a blockade.
- branchial pouch — one of a series of rudimentary outcroppings of the inner pharyngeal wall, corresponding to the branchial grooves on the surface.
- branching rules — rules that are used to break down a complex problem into several smaller problems
- branchiostegous — branchiostegal.
- bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
- buckinghamshire — a county in SE central England, containing the Vale of Aylesbury and parts of the Chiltern Hills: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Milton Keynes, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Aylesbury. Pop (excluding Milton Keynes): 478 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Milton Keynes): 1568 sq km (605 sq miles)
- buffalo currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes odoratum, of the central U.S., having showy, drooping clusters of fragrant yellow flowers and edible black fruit.
- cabinet picture — a small easel painting, usually under 3 feet (0.9 meters) in width and formerly exhibited in a cabinet or special room.
- canterbury bell — a campanulaceous biennial European plant, Campanula medium, widely cultivated for its blue, violet, or white flowers
- canterbury lamb — New Zealand lamb exported chilled or frozen to the United Kingdom
- cardinal number — A cardinal number is a number such as 1, 3, or 10 that tells you how many things there are in a group but not what order they are in. Compare ordinal number.
- cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
- centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
- chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
- charcoal burner — (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning
- charcoal-burner — a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
- circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
- circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
- clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
- combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
- configurability — The property of being configurable.
- corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
- council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
- counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
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