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

  • cabinet pudding — a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit
  • campaign button — a disk-shaped pin worn by a supporter of a political candidate, usually bearing the name of the candidate and often a slogan or the candidate's picture.
  • cardinal number — A cardinal number is a number such as 1, 3, or 10 that tells you how many things there are in a group but not what order they are in. Compare ordinal number.
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • chestnut blight — a disease of chestnut trees, caused by a fungus (Endothia parasitica), that has virtually destroyed the American chestnut
  • child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
  • circuit binding — a style of limp-leather binding, used esp for Bibles and prayer books, in which the edges of the cover bend over to protect the edges of the pages
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
  • communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • consubstantiate — (of the Eucharistic bread and wine and Christ's body and blood) to undergo consubstantiation
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • countersink bit — a tool for countersinking
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • counting number — natural number
  • country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
  • cranberry juice — the juice of cranberries
  • cyber-squatting — (jargon, networking)   The practice of registering famous brand names as Internet domain names, e.g. harrods.com, ibm.firm or sears.shop, in the hope of later selling them to the appropriate owner at a profit.
  • de bruijn graph — (mathematics)   A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
  • dead and buried — If you say that something such as an idea or situation is dead and buried, you are emphasizing that you think that it is completely finished or past, and cannot happen or exist again in the future.
  • decarburization — The act, process, or result of decarburizing.
  • diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
  • disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishably — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • do the business — to achieve what is required
  • double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
  • double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
  • double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • embalming fluid — a liquid used to treat a dead body, which contains preservatives to retard putrefaction
  • emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
  • english bulldog — bulldog (sense 1)
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