15-letter words containing w, b, u
- backup software — (tool, software) Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
- be a wake-up to — to be fully alert to (a person, thing, action, etc)
- be just as well — If you say that something that has happened is just as well, you mean that it is fortunate that it happened in the way it did.
- be lost without — If you say that you would be lost without someone or something, you mean that you would be unhappy or unable to work properly without them.
- be snowed under — to be overwhelmed, esp with paperwork
- beam-power tube — a vacuum tube in which the stream of electrons flowing to the plate is focused by the action of a set of auxiliary, charged elements, giving an increase in output power.
- blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
- bowstring truss — a structural truss consisting of a curved top chord meeting a bottom chord at each end.
- buffer overflow — (programming) What happens when you try to store more data in a buffer than it can handle. This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see overrun and firehose syndrome), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed. For example, in a text-processing tool that crunches a line at a time, a short line buffer can result in lossage as input from a long line overflows the buffer and overwrites data beyond it. Good defensive programming would check for overflow on each character and stop accepting data when the buffer is full. See also spam, overrun screw.
- building worker — a labourer, bricklayer, etc who works in the construction industry
- butterfly wedge — a wooden fastening in the form of a double dovetail for joining two boards at their edges.
- buys-ballot law — the law stating that if one stands with one's back to the wind, in the Northern Hemisphere the atmospheric pressure will be lower on one's left and in the Southern Hemisphere it will be lower on one's right: descriptive of the relationship of horizontal winds to atmospheric pressure.
- cornflower blue — a deep vivid blue, like that of the typical blooms of a cornflower
- flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
- giant water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
- how about that! — isn't that interesting!
- knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
- lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
- lutzow-holm bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Enderby Land.
- new brunswicker — a native or inhabitant of New Brunswick
- number one wood — driver (def 4).
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
- rockwell number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Rockwell test) made by indenting a test piece with a Brale, or with a steel ball of specific diameter, under two successive loads and measuring the resulting permanent indentation.
- rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- running bowline — a type of slipknot formed by running the standing line through the loop formed in a regular bowline
- strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
- subminimum wage — See example at subminimum (def 1).
- the public weal — the public good; the good of society
- titius-bode law — Bode's law.
- tobacco budworm — the larva of a noctuid moth, Heliothis virescens, that damages the buds and young leaves of tobacco.
- touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
- troubled waters — a confused or chaotic state of affairs: The situation was terrible, but like many politicians he was attracted by troubled waters.
- tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
- unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
- unknowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
- upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
- water-based mud — Water-based mud is a type of drilling mud consisting mainly of water, which has additives to modify it and make it more effective.
- wattle and daub — Also, wattle and dab. a building technique employing wattles plastered with clay and mud.
- wedding banquet — a lavish meal served after a wedding ceremony
- weimar republic — the German republic (1919–33), founded at Weimar.
- well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
- welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
- wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
- winesburg, ohio — a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.
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