13-letter words containing n, u
- authenticator — a person or thing that authenticates.
- authorisation — Alternative spelling of authorization.
- authoritarian — If you describe a person or an organization as authoritarian, you are critical of them controlling everything rather than letting people decide things for themselves.
- authorization — an authorizing or being authorized
- auto-injector — An auto-injector is a hypodermic syringe that you can use to inject yourself with a liquid.
- autochthonous — (of rocks, deposits, etc) found where they and their constituents were formed
- autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
- autoinfection — infection by a pathogenic agent already within the body or infection transferred from one part of the body to another
- automatonlike — Like an automaton; robotic.
- automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
- autonomically — autonomous.
- autooxidation — autoxidation.
- autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
- autumn crocus — a liliaceous plant, Colchicum autumnale, of Europe and N Africa having pink or purplish autumn flowers
- averruncation — the act of averting or turning away
- aviation fuel — fuel used to power airplanes
- baba ghanoush — a thick purée of aubergines, tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic, originating in North Africa and the Mediterranean
- back mutation — the reversion of a mutant to the original phenotype
- backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
- backgrounding — Present participle of background.
- backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
- badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
- balanced fund — a mutual fund made up of both stocks and bonds
- balloon chuck — a lathe chuck having the form of a hollow hemisphere, for enclosing and holding small parts, as balance staffs of watches, so that only their ends are exposed.
- banbury tarts — small baked pastries filled with raisins, currants, etc.
- bancassurance — the selling of insurance products by a bank to its customers
- band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
- banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- bang on about — If someone bangs on about something, they keep talking about it in a boring or annoying way.
- bank discount — interest on a loan deducted from the principal amount when the loan is made and based on the loan's face value
- bank of issue — a bank, as a Federal Reserve Bank, empowered by a government to issue currency.
- banking hours — the hours during which a bank is open for business
- banking house — a more formal term for a bank
- bankrupt worm — a roundworm (genus Trichostrongylus) that is an intestinal parasite of birds and mammals, especially devastating to young livestock.
- barbarousness — The state or quality of being barbarous.
- baroque organ — a pipe organ dating from or built to the specifications of the baroque period at the time of J. S. Bach.
- barosinusitis — aerosinusitis.
- barrier-nurse — to tend (infectious patients) in isolation, to prevent the spread of infection
- baryon number — the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- bbn butterfly — (computer) A supercomputer developed at BBN Technologies, named after the "butterfly" multi-stage switching network around which it was built. It could have up to 512 CPUs connected to allow every CPU access to every other CPU's memory, albeit with about 15 times the latency than for its own. The earlier GP-1000 models used up to 256 Motorola 68020s. The later TC-2000 models used up to 512 Motorola 88100s. Language developed for, or ported to, the BBN Butterfly were Butterfly Common LISP, Butterfly Scheme, Delirium, and MultiScheme.
- be nuts about — to be greatly in love with
- be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
- beacon status — a ranking awarded by the government to an organization, rendering it eligible for extra funding, and aimed at encouraging organizations to share good practice with each other
- beauteousness — The state or quality of being beauteous.
- beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- beef bouillon — a broth made either by straining water in which bits of lean beef have been cooked or by dissolving beef extract in hot water.
- beehive round — an artillery shell that ejects thousands of naillike metal projectiles on exploding.
- beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to