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16-letter words containing n, a, b, l, u

  • bunker mentality — a defensive attitude in which others are seen as hostile or potentially hostile
  • burge's language — Unnamed functional language based on lambda-calculus. Recursive Programming techniques", W.H. Burge, A-W 1975.
  • business analyst — (job)   A person who analyses the operations of a department or functional unit to develop a general systems solution to the problem. The solution will typically involve a combination of manual and automated processes. The business analyst can provide insights into an operation for an information systems analyst.
  • busman's holiday — If you have a holiday, but spend it doing something similar to your usual work, you can refer to it as a busman's holiday.
  • can-not help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • canada bluegrass — a Eurasian grass, Poa compressa, naturalized in North America, having creeping rootstocks and bluish-green leaves.
  • canterbury bells — a cultivated bellflower (Campanula medium) with white, pink, or blue cuplike flowers
  • canterbury tales — an unfinished literary work by Chaucer, largely in verse, consisting of stories told by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket at Canterbury
  • carbon bisulfide — carbon disulfide
  • carbon disulfide — a heavy, volatile, colorless liquid, CS2, highly flammable and poisonous, used as a solvent, insecticide, etc.
  • cardinal numbers — Also called cardinal numeral. any of the numbers that express amount, as one, two, three, etc. (distinguished from ordinal number).
  • cerulean warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica cerulea, the male of which is blue above and white below.
  • chilean firebush — South American shrub with scarlet flowers
  • circumambulating — Present participle of circumambulate.
  • circumambulation — The act of walking around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
  • class background — a person's background with reference to social class
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
  • congeliturbation — the churning, heaving, and thrusting of soil material due to the action of frost.
  • constructability — Alternative form of constructibility.
  • consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
  • cuban royal palm — a feather palm, Roystonea regia, of tropical America, having a trunk that is swollen in the middle, drooping leaves from 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5 meters) long, and small, round fruit.
  • cumberland sauce — a cold sauce made from orange and lemon juice, port, and redcurrant jelly, served with ham, game, or other meat
  • cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
  • discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
  • discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • disequilibration — to put out of equilibrium; unbalance: A period of high inflation could disequilibrate the monetary system.
  • disreputableness — The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
  • distributionally — In a distributional manner.
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • double occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as in a hotel, for two persons sharing the same room: The rate is $35 per person, double occupancy, or $65, single occupancy.
  • double pneumonia — pneumonia affecting both lungs.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • dublin bay prawn — a large prawn usually used in a dish of scampi
  • el camino bignum — (humour)   /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • emotional labour — work that requires good interpersonal skills
  • flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
  • fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
  • gingerbread plum — a tree, Neocarya macrophylla, of western Africa, bearing a large, edible, starchy fruit.
  • global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
  • go out on a limb — say sth daring
  • great blue heron — a large American heron, Ardea herodias, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
  • gulf of san blas — an inlet of the Caribbean on the N coast of Panama
  • horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
  • humanly possible — feasible, practical
  • hyperreal number — any of the set of numbers formed by the addition of infinite numbers and infinitesimal numbers to the set of real numbers
  • immeasurableness — The state or condition of being immeasurable.
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