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18-letter words containing u, n, r, e

  • axis of revolution — an axis in a plane, about which an area is revolved to form a solid of revolution.
  • bachelor's-buttons — any of various plants of the daisy family with button-like flower heads
  • back to square one — If you are back to square one, you have to start dealing with something from the beginning again because the way you were dealing with it has failed.
  • background reading — reading of related works in order to get contextual information on a topic that you are intending to study or write about
  • bargaining counter — A bargaining counter is the same as a bargaining chip.
  • battle of omdurman — a battle (1898) in which the Mahdi's successor and his Ansar followers were defeated by Lord Kitchener's British forces
  • battleground-state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
  • be sure of oneself — If you are sure of yourself, you are very confident about your own abilities or opinions.
  • before you know it — rapidly, soon
  • behaviour patterns — the characteristic ways in which a person or animal acts
  • bernoulli equation — Hydrodynamics. Bernoulli's theorem (def 2).
  • berwick-upon-tweed — a town in N England, in N Northumberland at the mouth of the Tweed: much involved in border disputes between England and Scotland between the 12th and 16th centuries; neutral territory 1551–1885. Pop: 12 870 (2001)
  • bioinstrumentation — the use of instruments, as sensors, to detect and measure certain body functions, as of persons in spaceflight, and transmit the data to a point where it is evaluated
  • bird's-nest fungus — any fungus of the family Nidulariaceae, having a nestlike spore-producing body containing egglike spore-filled structures
  • blackback flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
  • blissful ignorance — unawareness or inexperience of something unpleasant
  • board of education — a group or agency with responsibility for education
  • born to the purple — being of royal or high birth
  • boulogne-sur-seine — an industrial suburb of SW Paris. Pop: 106 367 (1999)
  • bounty-fed farmers — farmers who benefit from subsidies
  • bourdon-tube gauge — an instrument for measuring the pressure of gases or liquids, consisting of a semicircular or coiled, flexible metal tube attached to a gauge that records the degree to which the tube is straightened by the pressure of the gas or liquid inside.
  • brand-name product — A brand-name product is one which is made by a well-known manufacturer and has the manufacturer's label on it.
  • bread and circuses — something offered as a means of distracting attention from a problem or grievance
  • break your silence — If someone breaks their silence about something, they talk about something that they have not talked about before or for a long time.
  • bring someone luck — If you say that something brings bad luck or brings someone good luck, you believe that it has an influence on whether good or bad things happen to them.
  • bring-and-buy sale — A bring-and-buy sale is an informal sale to raise money for a charity or other organization. People who come to the sale bring things to be sold and buy things that other people have brought.
  • briquet's syndrome — somatization disorder.
  • broadcasting house — any of a number of buildings in the UK from which the BBC broadcasts or has broadcast
  • bubble-jet printer — an ink-jet printer that heats the ink before printing
  • building materials — materials such as bricks, cement, timber, etc
  • bullnose stretcher — bull stretcher (def 1).
  • bullnose-stretcher — Also called bullnose stretcher. a brick having one of the edges along its length rounded for laying as a stretcher in a sill or the like.
  • burn one's bridges — If you burn your bridges, you do something which forces you to continue with a particular course of action, and makes it impossible for you to return to an earlier situation or relationship.
  • burn one's fingers — to suffer from having meddled or been rash
  • burrell collection — a gallery in Glasgow, noted for its collection of paintings, textiles, furniture, ceramics, etc
  • butter-and-egg man — a prosperous businessman from a small town or a farmer who spends his money ostentatiously on visits to a big city.
  • cabernet sauvignon — a black grape originally grown in the Bordeaux area of France, and now throughout the wine-producing world
  • calcium propionate — a white, water-soluble powder, CaC 6 H 10 O 4 , used in bakery products to inhibit the growth of fungi.
  • california current — a cold current originating in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, flowing SE along the coast of W North America.
  • campaign furniture — furniture, as chests or desks, having metal hinges on the corners and handles on the sides.
  • cash-for-questions — of, involved in, or relating to a scandal in which some MPs were accused of accepting bribes to ask particular questions in Parliament
  • casualty insurance — insurance providing coverage against accident and property damages, as automobile, theft, liability, and explosion insurance, but not including life insurance, fire insurance, or marine insurance.
  • catalogue raisonne — a descriptive catalogue, esp one covering works of art in an exhibition or collection
  • caterpillar hunter — any of various carabid beetles of the genus Calosoma, of Europe and North America, which prey on the larvae of moths and butterflies
  • cauliflower fungus — a large edible white to yellowish cauliflowerlike mushroom, Sparassis radicata, widely distributed in North America.
  • cellular automaton — (algorithm, parallel)   (CA, plural "- automata") A regular spatial lattice of "cells", each of which can have any one of a finite number of states. The state of all cells in the lattice are updated simultaneously and the state of the entire lattice advances in discrete time steps. The state of each cell in the lattice is updated according to a local rule which may depend on the state of the cell and its neighbors at the previous time step. Each cell in a cellular automaton could be considered to be a finite state machine which takes its neighbours' states as input and outputs its own state. The best known example is J.H. Conway's game of Life.
  • cellular telephone — a mobile phone
  • centre of pressure — the point in a body at which the resultant pressure acts when the body is immersed in a fluid
  • centrifugal clutch — an automatic clutch in which the friction surfaces are engaged by weighted levers acting under centrifugal force at a certain speed of rotation
  • chambered nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
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