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

  • cannot help but — to be unable to do anything else except
  • 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.
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • charcoal burner — (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning
  • charcoal-burner — a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
  • chestnut bottle — an American glass bottle or flask of the 19th century, having slightly flattened sides.
  • child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • 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.
  • copenhagen blue — a greyish-blue colour
  • cornflower blue — a deep vivid blue, like that of the typical blooms of a cornflower
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • counterbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of counterbalance.
  • counterbalances — Plural form of counterbalance.
  • counterblockade — a retaliatory blockade
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • cuban solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Atopogale cubana, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
  • double concerto — a concerto for two solo instruments
  • double entendre — a double meaning.
  • 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 saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
  • double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • double-entendre — a double meaning.
  • doublet pattern — a pattern, as on a fabric, in which a figure or group is duplicated in reverse order on the opposite side of a centerline.
  • 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
  • emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
  • english bulldog — bulldog (sense 1)
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • ferromolybdenum — a ferroalloy containing up to 60 percent molybdenum.
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • football ground — an area of land where football games are played
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • 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
  • hot-bulb engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a heated bulb or cap for ignition.
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