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17-letter words containing o, u, t, b, n

  • non-subordination — the act of placing in a lower rank or position: The refusal to allow women to be educated was part of society's subordination of women to men.
  • nonunderstandable — Not understandable.
  • not a happy bunny — deeply dissatisfied or discontented
  • not to be outdone — You use not to be outdone to introduce an action which someone takes in response to a previous action.
  • notebook computer — laptop, portable
  • number eight iron — a club with an iron head the face of which has more slope than a pitcher but less slope than a niblick.
  • number three wood — spoon (def 5).
  • old south arabian — a group of four closely related Semitic languages, having a writing system and used from about the eighth to the fifth centuries b.c. in the southern part of Arabia.
  • on-the-job injury — On-the-job injury is bodily harm that is caused while you are doing your job.
  • percussion bullet — a bullet that is exploded by percussion
  • plymouth brethren — a religious sect founded c. 1827, strongly Puritanical in outlook and prohibiting many secular occupations for its members. It combines elements of Calvinism, Pietism, and millenarianism, and has no organized ministry
  • polyvinyl butyral — a white, water-insoluble, polyvinyl acetal made with butyraldehyde, used chiefly as an interlayer in the manufacture of safety glass.
  • production number — a specialty number or routine, usually performed by the entire cast consisting of musicians, singers, dancers, stars, etc., of a musical comedy, vaudeville show, or the like.
  • public accountant — an accountant whose services are available to the public at large, in contrast to one employed on a full-time basis by a company.
  • public television — a type of noncommercial, usually educational, television programming funded by the government, grants, viewers, and corporations. Compare educational television.
  • put the kibosh on — nonsense.
  • redistributionist — a person who believes in, advocates, or supports income redistribution.
  • reflection nebula — a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that reflects the light of neighboring stars.
  • ribonucleoprotein — a substance composed of RNA in close association with protein; a nucleoprotein containing RNA. Abbreviation: RNP.
  • rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • rubber plantation — an estate in a tropical country where rubber trees are grown on a large scale
  • saint bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
  • sanctions-busting — the deliberate disregarding of sanctions that are in force against a state, organization, etc
  • subordinated debt — a debt that an unsecured creditor can only claim, in the event of a liquidation, after the claims of secured creditors have been paid
  • subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
  • sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
  • surrender to bail — to present oneself at court at the appointed time after having been on bail
  • synchronous orbit — an orbit in which the orbital period of a satellite is identical to the spin period of the central body
  • teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
  • telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
  • temporomandibular — of, relating to, or situated near the hinge joint formed by the lower jaw and the temporal bone of the skull.
  • the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
  • the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • theory of numbers — number theory.
  • to knit your brow — If you knit your brows or knit your eyebrows, you frown because you are angry or worried.
  • to know no bounds — If you say that a feeling or quality knows no bounds, you are emphasizing that it is very strong or intense.
  • torricellian tube — a vertical glass tube partly evacuated and partly filled with mercury, the height of which is used as a measure of atmospheric pressure
  • triboluminescence — luminescence produced by friction, usually within a crystalline substance.
  • turbinado (sugar) — a partially refined, granulated, pale-brown sugar obtained by washing raw sugar in a centrifuge until most of the molasses is removed
  • ultramicrobalance — a balance for weighing precisely, to a hundredth of a microgram or less, minute quantities of material.
  • uncle tom's cabin — an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • uncomfortableness — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • unreconstructible — not capable of being reconstructed.
  • urban development — the development or improvement of an urban area by building
  • urban exploration — a recreational activity in which people explore derelict urban structures such as abandoned sewers or underground railways or attempt to access areas which are closed to the public such as the roofs of skyscrapers
  • vibrofluidization — Vibrofluidization is when vibration is used to make particles move in a fluidized bed.
  • welshman's button — an angler's name for a species of caddis fly, Sericostoma personatum
  • working substance — a substance, usually a fluid, that undergoes changes in pressure, temperature, volume, or form as part of a process for accomplishing work.
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