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16-letter words containing s, i, g, b, u

  • absolute ceiling — the maximum height above sea level, usually measured in feet or metres, at which an aircraft can maintain horizontal flight
  • agustin iturbide — Agustín de [ah-goos-teen de] /ˌɑ gusˈtin dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1783–1824, Mexican soldier and revolutionary: as Agustín I, emperor of Mexico 1822–23.
  • assigned numbers — (standard)   The RFC STD 2 documenting the currently assigned values from several series of numbers used in network protocol implementations. This RFC is updated periodically and, in any case, current information can be obtained from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). If you are developing a protocol or application that will require the use of a link, socket, port, protocol, etc., you should contact the IANA to receive a number assignment.
  • background music — music of any kind that is played while some other activity is going on, so that people do not actively attend to it
  • background noise — any type of noise that is not the sound that you are specifically listening to or monitoring
  • beg the question — If you say that something begs a particular question, you mean that it makes people want to ask that question; some people consider that this use is incorrect.
  • bluegrass region — a region in central Kentucky, famous for its horse farms and fields of bluegrass.
  • bois de boulogne — a large park in W Paris, formerly a forest: includes the racecourses of Auteuil and Longchamp
  • bring to justice — to capture, try, and usually punish (a criminal, an outlaw, etc)
  • brussels griffon — one of a Belgian breed of toy dogs having a thick, wiry, reddish-brown coat.
  • budgie smugglers — men's close-fitting swimming trunks
  • building society — In Britain, a building society is a business which will lend you money when you want to buy a house. You can also invest money in a building society, where it will earn interest. Compare savings and loan association.
  • bullying tactics — the use of intimidation to gain one's objective
  • burnet saxifrage — a Eurasian umbelliferous plant of the genus Pimpinella, having umbrella-like clusters of white or pink flowers
  • burning question — urgent matter for discussion
  • business college — a college providing courses in secretarial studies, business management, accounting, commerce, etc
  • business english — English in business usage, especially the styles and forms of business correspondence.
  • business manager — a person who ensures the running of a business by managing the work of relevant staff
  • columbia heights — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • designer stubble — (on a man) facial hair that is carefully trimmed to give what is thought to be an attractive rugged slightly unshaven look
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • inextinguishable — not extinguishable: an inextinguishable fire.
  • inextinguishably — In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
  • julius rosenbergAlfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
  • like gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • louise bourgeois — Léon Victor Auguste [ley-awn veek-tawr oh-gyst] /leɪˈɔ̃ vikˈtɔr oʊˈgyst/ (Show IPA), 1851–1925, French statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1920.
  • mobility housing — houses designed or adapted for people who have difficulty in walking but are not necessarily chairbound
  • niche publishing — publishing books that are intended for a very specialized market
  • publishing house — a company that publishes books, pamphlets, engravings, or the like: a venerable publishing house in Boston.
  • robin's-egg blue — a pale green to a light greenish-blue color.
  • saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
  • santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
  • scarborough lily — a plant, Vallota speciosa, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of funnel-shaped, scarlet flowers.
  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
  • sounding balloon — a balloon carrying instruments aloft to make atmospheric measurements, especially a radiosonde balloon.
  • south burlington — a town in NW Vermont.
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • subliminal image — an image used in advertising, etc, that is too quick to be registered by the mind but is used to influence the viewer unconsciously
  • sublingual gland — (in human beings) either of a pair of salivary glands situated beneath the tongue
  • subsistence wage — the lowest wage upon which a worker and his or her family can survive
  • substantia nigra — a deeply pigmented area of the midbrain containing dopamine-producing nerve cells.
  • subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
  • touring bindings — specialised ski bindings with releasable locked down heels that can be used for ski touring and backcountry skiing

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