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17-letter words containing s, u, b, c

  • deoxyribonuclease — DNase.
  • desoxyribonucleic — Alternative spelling of deoxyribonucleic.
  • digestive biscuit — a round semisweet biscuit made from wholemeal flour
  • disability clause — a clause in a life-insurance policy providing for waiver of premium and sometimes payment of monthly income if the policyholder becomes totally and permanently disabled.
  • distributed force — A distributed force is a force that acts on a large part of a surface, not just on one place.
  • distributed logic — a computer system in which remote terminals and electronic devices, distributed throughout the system, supplement the main computer by doing some of the computing or decision making
  • distribution cost — a cost incurred by a distributor or in the distribution of something
  • double gloucester — a type of smooth orange-red cheese of mild flavour
  • 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 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.
  • globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • herbaceous border — A herbaceous border is a flower bed containing a mixture of plants that flower every year.
  • 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.
  • indestructibility — not destructible; that cannot be destroyed.
  • 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
  • intersubjectively — (philosophy) In an intersubjective way; between or among multiple subjects.
  • intersubjectivity — The state or condition of being intersubjective.
  • librocubicularist — (rare) A person who reads in bed.
  • malagasy republic — former name of Madagascar.
  • massachusetts bay — an inlet of the Atlantic, off the E coast of Massachusetts.
  • nichiren buddhism — a doctrine of salvation based on the Lotus Sutra.
  • nicholas bourbaki — the pseudonym of a group of mainly French mathematicians that, since 1939, has been producing a monumental work on advanced mathematics, Eléments de Mathématique
  • nuclear submarine — undersea vessel powered by atomic energy
  • outside broadcast — An outside broadcast is a radio or television programme that is not recorded or filmed in a studio, but in another building or in the open air.
  • percussion bullet — a bullet that is exploded by percussion
  • performance bonus — a monetary bonus paid to staff who have performed well in their job
  • piece of business — business (def 10).
  • pitot-static tube — a device combining a Pitot tube with a static tube: used to measure airspeed.
  • postbaccalaureate — bachelor's degree.
  • pressurized cabin — the cabin of an aircraft in which the air has been pressurized
  • pseudo-biological — pertaining to biology.
  • public assistance — government aid to the poor, disabled, or aged or to dependent children, as financial assistance or food stamps.
  • public enterprise — economic activity by governmental organizations
  • public prosecutor — an officer charged with the conduct of criminal prosecution in the interest of the public.
  • public television — a type of noncommercial, usually educational, television programming funded by the government, grants, viewers, and corporations. Compare educational television.
  • publicity-seeking — eager to attract publicity
  • purple shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • quarterback sneak — a play in which the quarterback charges into the middle of the line, usually immediately after receiving the ball from the center.
  • sanctions-busting — the deliberate disregarding of sanctions that are in force against a state, organization, etc
  • saxe-coburg-gotha — a member of the present British royal family, from the establishment of the house in 1901 until 1917 when the family name was changed to Windsor.
  • sb could do worse — If you tell someone that they could do worse than do a particular thing, you are advising them that it would be quite a good thing to do.
  • sodium bichromate — a red or orange crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 Cr 2 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and inks, as a corrosion inhibitor, a mordant, a laboratory reagent, in the tanning of leather, and in electroplating.
  • squaw huckleberry — deerberry.
  • stockbroker tudor — a modern style of architecture popular in affluent suburban areas that is imitative of Tudor architecture
  • subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
  • subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
  • subject catalogue — a catalogue with entries arranged by subject in a classified sequence
  • subjective spirit — spirit, insofar as it falls short of the attainments of objective spirit.
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