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15-letter words containing u, n, b, i, o

  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
  • founding member — A founding member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
  • hot-bulb engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a heated bulb or cap for ignition.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
  • ibero-maurusian — of or relating to an Epipaleolithic culture of northwestern Africa that preceded the Capsian culture and was once erroneously thought to have originated in southwestern Europe; characterized by the use of backed bladelets, occupation of the maritime plain, and the hunting of the Barbary sheep.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
  • immunoglobulins — Plural form of immunoglobulin.
  • in honour bound — under a moral obligation
  • in-and-out bond — a stonework or brickwork bond having headers and stretchers alternating vertically.
  • in/into trouble — If someone is in trouble, they are in a situation in which a person in authority is angry with them or is likely to punish them because they have done something wrong.
  • incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • incommutability — The quality or state of being incommutable.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indissolubility — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
  • infundibuliform — having the shape of a funnel; funnel-shaped.
  • inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • job opportunity — an opportunity of employment
  • job requirement — a quality or qualification that you must have in order to be suitable for a certain job
  • journal bearing — a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
  • lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
  • lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
  • maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • manubial column — a triumphal column decorated with spoils of the enemy.
  • maxilloturbinal — (anatomy) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.
  • member function — A method in C++.
  • microbusinesses — Plural form of microbusiness.
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
  • misdistribution — Incorrect or unfair distribution.
  • monkey business — frivolous or mischievous behavior.
  • monosubstituted — containing one substituent.
  • motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
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