15-letter words containing r, e, u, b, n, s
- discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
- do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
- double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
- e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
- flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
- francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
- ground observer — a person stationed in a position on the ground to watch, follow, and report on flights of aircraft, especially of enemy aircraft.
- groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
- guns and butter — a symbol for the economic policy of a government insofar as spending is allocated for either military or social purposes
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- ibero-maurusian — of or relating to an Epipaleolithic culture of northwestern Africa that preceded the Capsian culture and was once erroneously thought to have originated in southwestern Europe; characterized by the use of backed bladelets, occupation of the maritime plain, and the hunting of the Barbary sheep.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
- ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- insuperableness — The quality of being insuperable or insurmountable; insuperability.
- intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
- leibnitz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
- lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
- mersenne number — a number of the form, 2 p −1, where p is a prime number.
- microbusinesses — Plural form of microbusiness.
- most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
- mourners' bench — a front row of seats at a revival meeting, for those who are to profess penitence
- mucous membrane — a lubricating membrane lining an internal surface or an organ, as the alimentary, respiratory, and genitourinary canals.
- neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
- new brunswicker — a native or inhabitant of New Brunswick
- non-putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
- obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
- obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
- opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
- opprobriousness — The state or condition of being opprobrious.
- ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.