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16-letter words containing w, b, u

  • ambulance worker — any person who works in the ambulance service
  • andrew tanenbaum — (person)   Professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1941-) of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Tanenbaum is famous for his work and books on computer architecture, operating systems and networks. He wrote the textbook "Computer Networks", Second Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1981, which describes the International Standards Organisation, Open Systems Interconnection (ISO-OSI) network model. See Amoeba, Mac-1, Mic-1, Mic-2, Micro Assembly Language, MINIX, MicroProgramming Language, standard.
  • baron tweedsmuir — the title of Scottish novelist John Buchan
  • blue dawn-flower — a tropical American vine, Ipomoea acuminata, of the morning glory family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers that turn from blue to pink.
  • blue-winged teal — a small North American duck (Anas discors) found on ponds and rivers
  • bonded warehouse — a warehouse in which dutiable goods are deposited until duty is paid or the goods are cleared for export
  • bound up in/with — If one thing is bound up with or in another, they are closely connected with each other, and it is difficult to consider the two things separately.
  • boutique brewery — microbrewery.
  • bowman's capsule — a membranous, double-walled capsule surrounding a glomerulus of a nephron.
  • break new ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • brown house moth — a species of micro moth, Hofmannophila pseudospretella, which, although it usually inhabits birds' nests, sometimes enters houses where its larvae can be very destructive of stored fabrics and foodstuffs
  • brown-eyed susan — a composite plant, Rudbeckia triloba, of the southeastern U.S., having a single flower with yellow rays darkening to an orange orbrown at the base and a brownish-black disk.
  • buckwheat family — the plant family Polygonaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees having stems with swollen joints, simple leaves, small, petalless flowers, and fruit in the form of an achene, and including the buckwheat, dock, knotweed, rhubarb, sea grape, and smartweed.
  • bundled software — software sold as part of a package with computers or other hardware or software
  • burrowing blenny — graveldiver.
  • butterfly flower — Also called Jerusalem date. a shrub or small tree, Bauhinia monandra, of French Guiana, having clusters of pink, purple-streaked flowers.
  • by word of mouth — orally rather than by written means
  • capsule wardrobe — a collection of clothes and accessories that includes only items considered essential
  • cerulean warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica cerulea, the male of which is blue above and white below.
  • cobweb houseleek — a small southern European plant, Sempervivum arachoideum, of the stonecrop family, having a dense, globular cluster of cobwebby leaves and red flowers on hairy stalks.
  • cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
  • distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
  • dublin bay prawn — a large prawn usually used in a dish of scampi
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
  • huyton-with-roby — an urban district in Merseyside, NW England, E of Liverpool.
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
  • kentucky warbler — a wood warbler, Oporornis formosus, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and marked with black on the face.
  • multi-way branch — switch statement
  • norwegian buhund — a slightly-built medium-sized dog of a breed with erect pointed ears and a short thick tail carried curled over its back
  • potato tuberworm — the larva of the potato moth.
  • powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • sb will be lucky — If you say that someone will be lucky to do or get something, you mean that they are very unlikely to do or get it, and will definitely not do or get any more than that.
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • strawberry guava — a shrub or small tree, Psidium littorale, of the myrtle family, native to Brazil, having smooth, grayish-brown bark, leathery leaves, white flowers, and edible, white-fleshed, purplish-red fruit.
  • strawberry shrub — Carolina allspice
  • subsistence wage — the lowest wage upon which a worker and his or her family can survive
  • superb blue wren — a small Australian bird, Malurus cyaneus, the adult male of which has bright blue plumage
  • swamp buttonwood — the buttonbush.
  • sweet pepperbush — a shrub, Clethra alnifolia, of the eastern and southern coastal U.S., having numerous erect clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
  • teutoburger wald — a chain of wooded hills in Germany, in Westphalia: Romans defeated by German tribes a.d.
  • to blow your top — If someone blows their top, they become very angry about something.
  • to cut both ways — If you say that something cuts both ways, you mean that it can have two opposite effects, or can have both good and bad effects.
  • twin-carburettor — (of an engine) having two carburettors
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • up to the elbows — deeply engaged (in work, etc.)

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