12-letter words containing a, b, u
- beautifulest — (dated) Most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
- beautifuller — (obsolete) Comparative form of beautiful.
- beauty cream — a cosmetic cream
- beauty quark — bottom quark
- beauty queen — A beauty queen is a woman who has won a beauty contest.
- beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty sleep — sleep, esp sleep before midnight
- beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
- bechuanaland — former British territory (1884-1966) in S Africa: now the country of Botswana
- beef sausage — a sausage made of beef rather than pork
- beer parlour — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc in which beer is served
- behaviourism — Behaviourism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- beleaguering — to surround with military forces.
- bella figura — a good impression; fine appearance
- belleau wood — a forest in N France: site of a battle (1918) in which the US Marines halted a German advance on Paris
- benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
- bequeathable — capable of being given to or bequeathed
- bequeathment — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bermuda high — a subtropical high centered near Bermuda.
- bermuda lily — a lily, Lilium longiflorum eximium, having white, funnel-shaped flowers, cultivated especially as an Easter lily.
- beurre blanc — an emulsion of cold butter in a white wine or vinegar and shallot reduction
- beurre manie — butterpaste.
- bevel square — a woodworker's square with an adjustable arm that can be set to mark out an angle or to check the slope of a surface
- bhubaneshwar — a state in E India. 60,136 sq. mi. (155,752 sq. km). Capital: Bhubaneshwar.
- bhutatathata — Tathata.
- bi-quarterly — occurring twice in each quarter of a year.
- biarticulate — having two joints, as the antennae of certain insects.
- biauriculate — having two auricles or earlike parts
- bifunctional — having two functions
- bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
- bilinguality — the ability to speak two languages fluently.
- billiard cue — a long cue used for playing billiards
- binocularity — binocular characteristics
- bioacoustics — the study of animals' use of sound
- biohazardous — a pathogen, especially one used in or produced by biological research.
- biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
- bioturbation — the stirring of sediment by organisms
- birket karun — a lake in N Egypt. 25 miles (40 km) long; about 5 miles (8 km) wide; 90 sq. mi. (233 sq. km).
- birth trauma — an emotional shock caused by being born.
- biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
- blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
- black beauty — a Biphetamine capsule.
- black butter — beurre noir.
- black grouse — a large N European grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, the male of which has a bluish-black plumage and lyre-shaped tail
- black liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the liquor that remains after digestion.
- black locust — Also called false acacia, yellow locust. a North American tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and clusters of fragrant white flowers.
- black muslim — a member of the Black Muslims
- black plague — Great Plague.
- black spruce — a coniferous tree, Picea mariana, of the northern regions of North America, growing mostly in cold bogs and having dark green needles
- black sucker — a hog sucker, Hypentelium nigricans, of eastern U.S. streams.