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

  • compilation album — a musical recording consisting of works chosen for a particular purpose or theme
  • concurrent oberon — (language)   A concurrent version of Oberon. There is an implementation the Ceres workstation.
  • consubstantiation — the doctrine that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists within the substance of the consecrated bread and wine
  • contrasuggestible — responding or tending to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the opposite
  • convoluted tubule — a portion of the nephron in the kidney that functions in concentrating urine and in maintaining salt, water, and sugar balance.
  • count one's beads — to pray with a rosary
  • countersubversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
  • cross the rubicon — If you say that someone has crossed the Rubicon, you mean that they have reached a point where they cannot change a decision or course of action.
  • denominate number — a number associated with a unit of measurement.
  • distribution cost — a cost incurred by a distributor or in the distribution of something
  • distribution line — A distribution line is a line or system for distributing power from a transmission system to a consumer that operates at less than 69,000 volts.
  • dobell's solution — a clear, yellowish, aqueous solution of sodium borate, sodium bicarbonate, phenol, and glycerol, used chiefly as an antiseptic and astringent for the nose and throat.
  • double insulation — Double insulation is insulation that consists of both basic insulation and supplementary insulation.
  • double refraction — the separation of a ray of light into two unequally refracted, plane-polarized rays of orthogonal polarizations, occurring in crystals in which the velocity of light rays is not the same in all directions.
  • double track line — a railway line with double track
  • double-ended bolt — a headless bolt threaded at both ends.
  • douglas engelbart — (person)   Douglas C. Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. On 1968-12-09, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, USA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the on live system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse, hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking and shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface. The original 90-minute video: Hyperlinks, Mouse, Web-board.
  • executive burnout — a total loss of energy and interest and an inability to function effectively, experienced by some executives as a result of excessive demands upon their resources or chronic overwork
  • fluid lubrication — lubrication in which bearing surfaces are separated by an oil film sustained by the motion of the parts
  • fulgencio batista — Fulgencio [fool-hen-syaw] /fulˈhɛn syɔ/ (Show IPA), (Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar) 1901–73, Cuban military leader: dictator of Cuba 1934–40; president 1940–44, 1952–59.
  • get a bang out of — to experience a thrill or excitement from
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • glastonbury chair — a folding chair having legs crossed front-to-back and having arms connected to the back and to the front seat rail.
  • gunboat diplomacy — diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force, especially by a powerful nation against a weaker one.
  • hubble's constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • hung up on sb/sth — obsessively or exclusively interested in
  • i am bound to say — You can say 'I am bound to say' to introduce a statement expressing something that you find undesirable or unexpected.
  • imitation doublet — a doublet formed entirely of glass.
  • in the background — behind the focus of attention
  • incommunicability — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
  • incubation period — the period between infection and the appearance of signs of a disease.
  • insectivorous bat — any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc
  • insupportableness — The state of being insupportable; insufferableness.
  • insurmountability — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • irrational number — a number that cannot be exactly expressed as a ratio of two integers.
  • least upper bound — an upper bound that is less than or equal to all the upper bounds of a particular set. 3 is the least upper bound of the set consisting of 1, 2, 3. Abbr.: lub.
  • lebanon mountains — a mountain range extending the length of Lebanon, in the central part. Highest peak, 10,049 feet (3063 meters).
  • leibniz mountains — a mountain range on the SW limb of the moon, containing the highest peaks (10 000 metres) on the moon
  • liability account — A liability account is an account recording a company's liabilities.
  • liberal education — an education based primarily on the liberal arts, emphasizing the development of intellectual abilities as opposed to the acquisition of professional skills.
  • lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.
  • little blue heron — a small heron, Egretta caerulea, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • make noises about — to give indications of one's intentions
  • management buyout — A management buyout is the buying of a company by its managers. The abbreviation MBO is also used.
  • medulla oblongata — the lowest or hindmost part of the brain, continuous with the spinal cord.
  • mis en bouteilles — (of a wine) bottled by a specified château, shipper, etc.
  • monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
  • mount robson park — a national park in the Rocky Mountains of E British Columbia, Canada.
  • neurofibromatosis — a dominantly inherited genetic disorder characterized by flat brown patches on the skin, neurofibromas of the skin and internal organs, and in some cases skeletal deformity.
  • non-reimbursement — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
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