12-letter words containing a, b, c, u
- inexecutable — That cannot be executed or carried out.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- just because — for the sole reason that
- kit-cat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
- kit-kat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
- knuckle ball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- lactalbumins — Plural form of lactalbumin.
- laguna beach — a town in S California.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- macaberesque — resembling or suggestive of the danse macabre; macabre
- magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
- magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- microtubular — Of or pertaining to microtubules.
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- myclobutanil — A triazole fungicide that works by inhibiting ergosterol biosynthesis.
- noctambulant — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
- noctambulism — somnambulism.
- noctambulist — somnambulism.
- noctambulous — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
- non-culpable — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
- of substance — wealthy
- orbicularity — The quality of being orbicular.
- orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
- pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
- panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
- panic buying — shopping to stockpile for emergency
- paul-boncour — Joseph [zhaw-zef] /ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1873–1972, French lawyer and statesman: premier 1932–33.
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
- plenum cable — (hardware) Cable that can be (legally) installed in the plenum (the space between a ceiling and the floor above it). Such cable is (usually) teflon-coated so that it will not give off toxic fumes when burned. In some parts of the world such cable is required by law.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.