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16-letter words containing n, o, b, s

  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • debating society — a club, e.g. at a school or university, which regularly holds debates
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • demonstrableness — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • destabilizations — Plural form of destabilization.
  • dimension lumber — building lumber cut to standard or specified sizes.
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discussion board — a website or section of a website that is used for public discussion of a specific topic and on which users can submit or read messages: You should post your questions on a parenting message board and get support from other parents.
  • disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • dishonorableness — The property of being dishonorable.
  • distributionally — In a distributional manner.
  • division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • dominus vobiscum — the Lord be with you.
  • dorr's rebellion — an insurrection in Rhode Island (1842) that grew out of dissatisfaction with the existing state constitution, which restricted suffrage to landholders or their eldest sons.
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • ebenezer scrooge — Ebenezer [eb-uh-nee-zer] /ˌɛb əˈni zər/ (Show IPA) a miserly curmudgeon in Dickens' Christmas Carol.
  • ebony spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium platyneuron, of woody areas of North America, having ladderlike leaves and shiny, dark brown stems.
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
  • endocannabinoids — Plural form of endocannabinoid.
  • equidistribution — An equal distribution.
  • expansion bottle — a tank collecting coolant from a radiator while an engine is heated, and from which the coolant returns to the radiator when the engine cools
  • fantasy football — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
  • fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
  • fibonacci series — a sequence of integers in which each integer (Fibonacci number) after the second is the sum of the two preceding integers; specif., the series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, . . .
  • fill one's boots — to take or do as much of something as one wants
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • forbes-robertson — Sir Johnston, 1853–1937, English actor and theatrical manager.
  • forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
  • gas blowoff line — A gas blowoff line is a safety device to control sudden increases in pressure.
  • get up sb's nose — If you say that someone or something gets up your nose, you mean that they annoy you.
  • go/be easy on sb — If you tell someone to go easy on, or be easy on, a particular person, you are telling them not to punish or treat that person very severely.
  • ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • gulf of san blas — an inlet of the Caribbean on the N coast of Panama
  • hamadryas baboon — a baboon, Papio (Comopithecus) hamadryas, of Ethiopia, the male of which has a mantle of long, dark hair about the head and shoulders: held sacred by the ancient Egyptians.
  • have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • have sb to thank — If you say that you have someone to thank for something, you mean that you are grateful to them because they caused it to happen.
  • hedge one's bets — If you hedge your bets, you reduce the risk of losing a lot by supporting more than one person or thing in a situation where they are opposed to each other.
  • hemangioblastoma — (medicine) Any of several benign neoplasm tumours of the brain.
  • horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
  • horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
  • humanly possible — feasible, practical
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
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