15-letter words containing u, b, a, n
- nullarbor plain — a treeless, semiarid area of S Australia, contiguous to the Great Australian Bight.
- obituary column — the division of a publication reserved for obituaries
- object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
- oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
- obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
- octanitrocubane — (organic compound) A high explosive derived from cubane.
- 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).
- oxyphenbutazone — an anti-inflammatory treatment for arthritis or bursitis
- painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
- prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
- probit equation — A probit equation is used to quantify the relationship between the concentration of a dangerous material and its effect on people.
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
- public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
- quantifiability — (uncountable) The condition of being quantifiable.
- quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- quarter blanket — a horse blanket, usually placed under a saddle or harness and extending to the horse's tail.
- queen substance — a pheromone secreted from the mandibular glands of a queen honeybee and smelled, eaten, and absorbed by the worker bees, having the effect of preventing them from producing or rearing rival queens.
- queensland blue — a pumpkin with a bluish skin
- questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
- ram-air turbine — a small air-driven turbine fitted to an aircraft to provide power in the event of a failure of the normal systems
- rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
- roundaboutation — circumlocution
- roundaboutility — roundaboutness
- rubaiyat stanza — a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.
- rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
- runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
- salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
- san luis obispo — a city in W California.
- sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
- saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
- scribaciousness — the quality or state of being scribacious
- sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
- serous membrane — any of various thin membranes, as the peritoneum, that line certain cavities of the body and exude a serous fluid.
- sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.