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12-letter words containing a, b, u, t, e, r

  • intertubular — Between tubes or tubules.
  • irrebuttable — incapable of being rebutted or refuted.
  • latex rubber — rubber used to make many products such as gloves, condoms, etc, and which is made from latex, a whitish milky fluid containing protein, starch, alkaloids, etc, that is produced by many plants
  • leatherbound — Bound in leather.
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • maple butter — thickened maple syrup
  • market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
  • metal lumber — a brand of sheet metal pressed and welded together to form joists and studding.
  • misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
  • not-a-number — (mathematics)   (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
  • obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
  • overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • perturbation — the act of perturbing.
  • perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
  • petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • 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.
  • protuberancy — protuberance.
  • quarter bend — a 90° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
  • quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
  • reattributed — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • reputability — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
  • rubber latex — the milky sap of any of several trees of the genus Hevea, especially H. brasiliensis, from which natural rubber is derived.
  • rubber match — rubber2 (def 4)
  • rubber plant — a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
  • rubber stamp — handheld printing tool
  • rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
  • rugby tackle — A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.
  • saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
  • saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
  • salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
  • scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • square-built — sturdy and strong-looking
  • stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
  • storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
  • sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
  • sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
  • subaggregate — a subtotal
  • subalternant — a universal in relation to a subaltern
  • subalternate — subordinate.
  • subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
  • subcentrally — in a subcentral manner
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