12-letter words containing b, a, t, o, u
- noctambulous — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
- non-dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
- northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
- 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.
- obambulation — (obsolete) Wandering about; a casual outing.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- obnubilation — to cloud over; becloud; obscure.
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
- obtuse angle — an angle greater than 90° but less than 180°.
- of substance — wealthy
- orbicularity — The quality of being orbicular.
- out at elbow — ragged or impoverished
- outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
- pause button — a button on a video or music player which can be pressed to temporarily stop the playing of the recording
- 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.
- 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.
- plymouth bay — a small, well-protected bay on the coast of Massachusetts; the first permanent European settlement in New England; founded by the Pilgrim Fathers.
- 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.
- pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
- questionable — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- questionably — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- quotableness — the condition or quality of being quotable
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- soda biscuit — a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- somnambulant — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- south arabia — Protectorate of, a former protectorate of Great Britain in S Arabia, now part of the Republic of Yemen.
- statute book — a book containing the laws enacted by the legislature of a state or nation.
- 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.
- sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
- subapostolic — of or relating to the era after that of the Apostles
- subarcuation — a structure that is somewhat arched
- subcutaneous — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.