12-letter words containing a, b, l, u
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
- desublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double album — a commercial recording sold on two CDs or LPs
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., issued from 1849 to 1933, equal to 2 eagles or 20 dollars.
- double fault — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) two faults in succession, resulting in the loss of the point, the loss of the serve, or both.
- double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- double modal — a syntactic construction in which two modal auxiliaries occur consecutively within a clause, as might could in I might could help you.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double steal — a play in which two base runners steal a base each.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- double-faced — practicing duplicity; hypocritical.
- double-glaze — If someone double-glazes a house or its windows, they fit windows that have two layers of glass which keeps the inside of the house warmer and quieter.
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- drawbar pull — the force, measured in pounds, available to a locomotive for pulling rolling stock after overcoming its own tractive resistance.
- dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
- duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
- duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emulsifiable — That can be emulsified, or applied in an emulsion.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
- equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
- equiprobable — (of two or more things ) equally likely to occur; having equal probability.
- equitability — The quality of being equitable; equitableness.
- exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- family album — photos of a family
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- frequentable — Accessible.