14-letter words containing o, u, b
- boston lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce
- bottle turning — the turning of the legs of chairs, tables, etc., in manufacturing to give certain sections an ornamental, bottlelike form.
- bouillon spoon — a spoon with a round bowl, smaller than a soup spoon.
- boulder canyon — a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, above Boulder Dam.
- bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
- bounce message — A notification message returned to the sender by a site unable to relay e-mail to the intended recipient or the next link in a bang path. Reasons might include a nonexistent or misspelled user name or a down relay site. Bounce messages can themselves fail, with occasionally ugly results; see sorcerer's apprentice mode and software laser. The terms "bounce mail" and "barfmail" are also common.
- bound moisture — Bound moisture is liquid in a solid, which exerts a vapor pressure that is less than the pure liquid would do at the same temperature.
- bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
- boundary fence — a fence between properties
- boundary layer — the layer of fluid closest to the surface of a solid past which the fluid flows: it has a lower rate of flow than the bulk of the fluid because of its adhesion to the solid
- boundary rider — an employee on a sheep or cattle station whose job is to maintain fences in good repair and to prevent stock from straying
- boundary value — boundary value analysis
- boundary-stone — a stone marking a boundary, sometimes giving information such as the initials of the local authority in whose jurisdiction the boundary is
- boutique hotel — A boutique hotel is a small, high-quality and usually attractive hotel.
- bread poultice — a poultice made from breadcrumbs
- broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
- bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
- broom cupboard — a small cupboard or closet for storing brooms, mops, etc
- brown bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
- brownie guider — the adult leader of a pack of Brownie Guides
- brushed cotton — cotton fabric that is brushed to remove excess lint and fibres to leave a soft, smooth finish
- bubble company — a company whose shares are highly valued and then plummet
- bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
- bucking bronco — an untamed horse that cowboys try to ride in a rodeo
- buckwheat coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 5/16 to 9/16 inch (7.9 to 13.9 m).
- buckwheat note — shape note.
- budget account — an account with a department store, etc, enabling a customer to make monthly payments to cover his or her past and future purchases
- buffalo beetle — the hairy larva of a carpet beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariae), harmful to furs and woolens
- buffalo indian — a member of any of the American Indian tribes, as those of the Algonquian, Athabascan, Caddoan, Kiowa, Siouan, or Uto-Aztecan linguistic families, that formerly inhabited the Great Plains. All were more or less nomadic, following the buffalo, and were often in touch with one another so that the development among them of common culture traits is noticeable.
- buffer overrun — buffer overflow
- bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
- builder's knot — clove hitch
- building block — If you describe something as a building block of something, you mean it is one of the separate parts that combine to make that thing.
- building works — construction projects
- bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
- bull's-eye rot — a disease of apples and pears, characterized by sunken, eyelike spots on the fruit and twig cankers, caused by any of several fungi, especially of the genus Neofabraea.
- bull-nosed bow — a bow having a bulbous forefoot.
- bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
- bullion fringe — a thick gold or silver wire or fringed cord used as a trimming, as on military uniforms
- bunching onion — a multistemmed onion plant resembling the scallion that does not form a real bulb, used in Asian cookery.
- burghley house — an Elizabethan mansion near Stamford in Lincolnshire: seat of the Cecil family; site of the annual Burghley Horse Trials
- burn-in period — 1. (testing) A factory soak test intended to increase the chance that components that fail early due to infant mortality will fail before the system leaves the factory. 2. (jargon) When one is so intensely involved in a new project that one forgets basic needs such as food, drink and sleep. Excessive burn-in can lead to burn-out. See hack mode, larval stage.
- burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
- bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
- burying ground — a burial ground.
- business hours — Business hours are the hours of the day in which a shop or a company is open for business.
- businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
- businessperson — Businesspeople are people who work in business.
- bust one's ass — Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort: She was determined to make straight A's or bust.
- butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat