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15-letter words containing u, n, b, e, t, r

  • job requirement — a quality or qualification that you must have in order to be suitable for a certain job
  • 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.
  • lumbar puncture — Medicine/Medical. puncture into the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, in the lumbar region, and withdrawal of spinal fluid, performed for diagnosis of the fluid, injection of dye for imaging, or administration of anesthesia or medication.
  • maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • member function — A method in C++.
  • moreton bay bug — a flattish edible shellfish, Thenus orientalis, of Northern Australian waters
  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
  • negative number — a number that is less than 0
  • non-putrescible — liable to become putrid.
  • nonattributable — not capable of being attributed to a particular source or cause
  • nonbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • 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.
  • octanitrocubane — (organic compound) A high explosive derived from cubane.
  • opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
  • 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.
  • public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • retail business — a firm which sells goods to individual customers
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • 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.
  • rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
  • 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)
  • sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
  • southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
  • subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • subtrochanteric — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • tableau curtain — a curtain, often used as an act curtain, designed to be drawn aside and up to give a festooned or draped effect.
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
  • troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • tuberculin test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to a given quantity of tuberculin indicates a past or present infection.
  • tuberculization — the process of becoming, or of causing people or animals to become, infected with tuberculosis
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