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15-letter words containing i, n, d, o, u, b

  • 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).
  • 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.
  • pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
  • radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
  • 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.
  • snubfin dolphin — Australian dolphin with a small dorsal fin
  • sodium benzoate — a white crystalline soluble compound used as an antibacterial and antifungal agent in preserving food (E211), as an antiseptic, and in making dyes and pharmaceuticals. Formula: (C6H5COO)Na
  • 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.
  • subduction zone — an act or instance of subducting; subtraction or withdrawal.
  • subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
  • suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
  • un-considerable — rather large or great in size, distance, extent, etc.: It cost a considerable amount. We took a considerable length of time to decide.
  • unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
  • unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
  • us savings bond — A US Savings bond is a long-term bond issued by the US government that is considered low-risk.
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
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