12-letter words containing a, b, o, u, g
- 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.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- go walkabout — to wander through the bush
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- non-arguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.
- nonambiguous — not ambiguous, clear
- oberammergau — a village in S Germany, SW of Munich: famous for the passion play performed there every ten years.
- obtuse angle — an angle greater than 90° but less than 180°.
- oda nobunaga — 1534–82, Japanese general and feudal leader, who unified much of Japan under his control: assassinated
- outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- through bass — figured bass.
- toboggan run — a slope that you can slide down on a toboggan
- tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- turbo-charge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
- turbocharged — with additional power from turbine
- turbocharger — a supercharger that is driven by a turbine turned by exhaust gases from the engine.
- un-ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- unbiological — pertaining to biology.
- uncognizable — capable of being perceived or known.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- unnegotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- unobligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
- up for grabs — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
- urbanologist — a sociologist specializing in urban life and problems