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

  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • 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)
  • fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
  • 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
  • have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • 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
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • insurance broker — person who sells insurance policies
  • jacques bonhomme — the contemptuous title given by the nobles to the peasants in the revolt of the Jacquerie in 1358 and adopted by the peasants in subsequent revolts.
  • 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.
  • leaps and bounds — You can use in leaps and bounds or by leaps and bounds to emphasize that someone or something is improving or increasing quickly and greatly.
  • liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
  • metes and bounds — the precisely described boundary lines of a parcel of land, as found in a deed
  • montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
  • nitrous bacteria — bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrites in the soil
  • nondurable goods — goods that remain usable for, or must be replaced within, a relatively short period of time, as food, apparel, or fabrics
  • obsequent stream — a stream flowing in a direction opposite to that of the dip of the local strata.
  • 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
  • put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
  • questionableness — The state or condition of being questionable; dubiousness.
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • reasonable doubt — law: grounds for believing sb is innocent
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • reserve buoyancy — the difference between the volume of a hull below the designed waterline and the volume of the hull below the lowest opening incapable of being made watertight.
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • 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.
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • sounding balloon — a balloon carrying instruments aloft to make atmospheric measurements, especially a radiosonde balloon.
  • southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • subjectification — to make subjective.
  • subordinationism — the doctrine that the first person of the Holy Trinity is superior to the second, and the second superior to the third.
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • swamp buttonwood — the buttonbush.
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • to mean business — If you say that someone means business, you mean they are serious and determined about what they are doing.
  • tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
  • transport number — that fraction of the total electric current that anions and cations carry in passing through an electrolytic solution.
  • unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
  • under bare poles — (of a sailing vessel) with no sails set
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