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17-letter words containing n, a, b, i

  • shopping-bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
  • special constable — a person recruited for temporary or occasional police duties, esp in time of emergency
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • spoonbill catfish — flathead catfish.
  • squash vine borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Melittia satyriniformis, that bores into the stems of squash and related plants.
  • steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
  • stymphalian birds — a flock of predacious birds of Arcadia that were driven away and killed by Hercules as one of his labors.
  • subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
  • subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
  • subordinated debt — a debt that an unsecured creditor can only claim, in the event of a liquidation, after the claims of secured creditors have been paid
  • subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
  • substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
  • surrender to bail — to present oneself at court at the appointed time after having been on bail
  • symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
  • synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
  • tabernacle mirror — a mirror of c1800, having columns and a cornice, usually gilt, with a painted panel over the mirror.
  • taiping rebellion — a movement of religious mysticism and agrarian unrest in China between 1850 and 1864 which weakened the Manchu dynasty but was eventually suppressed with foreign aid
  • take some beating — to be difficult to improve upon
  • telephone banking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services, such as oral payment instructions, account movements, raising loans, etc, over the telephone rather than by personal visit
  • temporomandibular — of, relating to, or situated near the hinge joint formed by the lower jaw and the temporal bone of the skull.
  • the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • the establishment — a group or class of people having institutional authority within a society, esp those who control the civil service, the government, the armed forces, and the Church: usually identified with a conservative outlook
  • the-invisible-man — a novel (1897) by H.G. Wells.
  • tibetan highlands — Tibet, Plateau of.
  • to be eaten alive — If you say that someone will be eaten alive, you mean that they will be completely destroyed or defeated by someone who is much stronger.
  • to read sb's mind — If you can read someone's mind, you know what they are thinking without them saying anything.
  • torricellian tube — a vertical glass tube partly evacuated and partly filled with mercury, the height of which is used as a measure of atmospheric pressure
  • transonic barrier — sound barrier.
  • trobriand islands — a group of coral islands in the Solomon Sea, north of the E part of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. Area: about 440 sq km (170 sq miles)
  • turbinado (sugar) — a partially refined, granulated, pale-brown sugar obtained by washing raw sugar in a centrifuge until most of the molasses is removed
  • tympanic membrane — eardrum.
  • ultramicrobalance — a balance for weighing precisely, to a hundredth of a microgram or less, minute quantities of material.
  • uncircumscribable — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
  • uncle tom's cabin — an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • understandability — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
  • undistinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • universal algebra — (logic)   The model theory of first-order equational logic.
  • unix brain damage — Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically a mailer) on a non-Unix system so that it will interoperate with Unix systems. The hack may qualify as "Unix brain damage" if the program conforms to published standards and the Unix program in question does not. Unix brain damage happens because it is much easier for other (minority) systems to change their ways to match non-conforming behaviour than it is to change all the hundreds of thousands of Unix systems out there. An example of Unix brain damage is a kluge in a mail server to recognise bare line feed (the Unix newline) as an equivalent form to the Internet standard newline, which is a carriage return followed by a line feed. Such things can make even a hardened jock weep.
  • unpredictableness — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
  • unsubstantiatable — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
  • urban exploration — a recreational activity in which people explore derelict urban structures such as abandoned sewers or underground railways or attempt to access areas which are closed to the public such as the roofs of skyscrapers
  • user brain damage — (humour)   (UBD) A description (usually abbreviated) used to close a trouble report obviously due to utter cluelessness on the user's part. Compare pilot error; opposite: PBD; see also brain-damaged, PEBCAK.
  • vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
  • vegetable tanning — the act or process of tanning hide by the infusion of plant extract.
  • ventura publisher — Corel VENTURA
  • vibrofluidization — Vibrofluidization is when vibration is used to make particles move in a fluidized bed.
  • visible radiation — electromagnetic radiation that causes the sensation of sight; light. It has wavelengths between about 380 and 780 nanometres
  • vitamin b complex — an important group of water-soluble vitamins containing vitamin B 1 , vitamin B 2 , etc.
  • voidable contract — a contract or agreement that is capable of being made of no legal effect or made void
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