13-letter words containing u, b, a, n, g
- curb exchange — American Stock Exchange.
- cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
- decarburizing — Present participle of decarburize.
- double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
- double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- encourageable — Able to be encouraged; suggestible.
- equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
- fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
- garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
- gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- gnu c library — (library) (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
- gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
- groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
- guanabara bay — a deep bay in the Atlantic Ocean, on the SE coast of Brazil: site of Rio de Janeiro.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- guinea-bissau — a republic on the W coast of Africa, between Guinea and Senegal: formerly a Portuguese overseas province; gained independence in 1974. 13,948 sq. mi. (36,125 sq. km). Capital: Bissau.
- guzman blanco — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1829–99, Venezuelan political leader: president 1870–88.
- harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
- housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- laughableness — The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
- lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
- luang prabang — Louangphrabang.
- luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
- macroglobulin — A plasma globulin of high molecular weight.
- mount gambier — a city in S Australia.
- mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
- mourning band — a piece of black material, esp an armband, worn to indicate that the wearer is in mourning
- non-ambiguity — doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner.
- non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
- noogoora burr — a European cocklebur, Xanthium pungens, that is poisonous to stock
- novo hamburgo — a city in Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil.
- oblique angle — an angle that is not a right angle; an acute or obtuse angle.
- old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
- organ-builder — a maker of organs
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
- run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
- running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
- running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
- shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.