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16-letter words containing o, b, n, u, i, l

  • double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
  • el camino bignum — (humour)   /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
  • 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)
  • emotional labour — work that requires good interpersonal skills
  • get into trouble — be punished for wrongdoing
  • global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
  • go out on a limb — say sth daring
  • humanly possible — feasible, practical
  • incombustibility — The quality or state of being incombustible.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • incorruptibility — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
  • indissolubleness — The quality of being indissoluble.
  • interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
  • isobutyl nitrite — butyl nitrite.
  • julius rosenberg — Alfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
  • labour relations — Labour relations refers to the relationship between employers and employees in industry, and the political decisions and laws that affect it.
  • labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
  • liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
  • lightbulb moment — a moment of sudden inspiration, revelation, or recognition
  • line of business — profession, trade: field
  • mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • neuroborreliosis — A disorder of the central nervous system caused by a spirochete of the genus Borrelia.
  • non-attributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • non-quantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
  • non-reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • oblique triangle — any triangle that does not have a right angle (contrasted with right triangle).
  • oblique zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it between the poles and the equator
  • ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
  • pourriture noble — noble rot.
  • pro bono publico — for the public good or welfare.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • public relations — (used with a plural verb) the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.
  • public transport — fare-paying travel
  • publication date — the date on which a book or periodical is or is planned to be published.
  • publishing house — a company that publishes books, pamphlets, engravings, or the like: a venerable publishing house in Boston.
  • put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
  • questionableness — The state or condition of being questionable; dubiousness.
  • redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • ribonucleic acid — RNA.
  • right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
  • robin's-egg blue — a pale green to a light greenish-blue color.
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
  • sounding balloon — a balloon carrying instruments aloft to make atmospheric measurements, especially a radiosonde balloon.
  • south burlington — a town in NW Vermont.
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
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