12-letter words containing b, a, g, u, e
- bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- 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 eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., issued from 1849 to 1933, equal to 2 eagles or 20 dollars.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- 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.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- gum-benjamin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- inexpugnable — incapable of being taken by force; impregnable; unconquerable.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- laguna beach — a town in S California.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- league table — competitive ranking
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- 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.
- mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- mutable sign — any of the four astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, that are grouped together because of their placement at the end of the seasons and characterized by the attribute of adaptability to circumstances.
- non-arguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.
- numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- 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°.
- plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
- rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- regular verb — verb that follows standard conjugation
- rugby league — a form of rugby football played between teams of 13 players