15-letter words containing d, u, b, n, i
- field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
- forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
- founding member — A founding member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
- ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
- hindenburg line — a line of elaborate fortifications established by the German army in World War I, near the French-Belgian border, from Lille SE to Metz.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- in honour bound — under a moral obligation
- in-and-out bond — a stonework or brickwork bond having headers and stretchers alternating vertically.
- 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.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indisputability — The property of being indisputable.
- indissolubility — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
- indubitableness — The quality of being indubitable.
- infundibuliform — having the shape of a funnel; funnel-shaped.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
- 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.
- judicial branch — the branch of government charged with the interpretation of laws and the administration of justice; the judiciary.
- lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
- listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- medicine bundle — a wrapped package of items used by some North American Indians for religious or ceremonial purposes.
- misdistribution — Incorrect or unfair distribution.
- monosubstituted — containing one substituent.
- municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- nation-building — Journalists sometimes use nation-building to refer to government policies that are designed to create a strong sense of national identity.
- nonreproducible — Unable to be reproduced; not reproducible.
- office building — building containing offices
- omnibus edition — a television or radio programme consisting of two or more programmes broadcast earlier in the week
- ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
- platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
- public building — a building that belongs to a town or state, and is used by the public
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
- quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- queen-sized bed — A queen-sized bed is larger than a double bed, but smaller than a king-sized bed.
- radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
- redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
- ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- roundaboutation — circumlocution
- roundaboutility — roundaboutness
- second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
- sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.