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12-letter words containing b, e, u

  • the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
  • the blue boy — a famous portrait by Gainsborough of a boy wearing a blue outfit
  • the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
  • the bushveld — an area of low altitude in N South Africa, having scrub vegetation
  • the business — If you say that someone or something is the business, you mean that they are the best of their kind.
  • the crucible — a Sheffield theatre, venue of the annual world professional snooker championship
  • the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
  • thistle tube — a glass funnel consisting of a long narrow tube with a thistle-shaped head.
  • thoroughbred — of pure or unmixed breed, stock, or lineage, as a horse or other animal; bred from the purest and best blood.
  • thumb-sucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
  • tip-up table — a pedestal table having a top folding downward in two leaves.
  • 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.
  • tool subject — a subject that, when mastered, equips students with a skill useful in studying other subjects: Grammar is a tool subject for English composition.
  • torpedo tube — a tube through which a self-propelled torpedo is launched, usually by the explosion of a charge of powder.
  • trabeculated — having trabeculae, transversely barred
  • tribute band — A tribute band is a pop group that plays the music and copies the style of another, much more famous, pop group.
  • trouble spot — an area in which trouble exists or is expected to develop: There are several diplomatic trouble spots in Central America.
  • trouble-free — not problematic
  • trouble-torn — afflicted with trouble, disorder or unrest
  • troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • troubleproof — not easily disturbed, disabled, injured, or put out of working order.
  • troubleshoot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • truck jobber — a jobber or wholesaler who makes calls carrying goods on a truck, thereby being able to take and deliver orders on the same call.
  • truss bridge — a bridge in which the loads are supported by trusses.
  • tube railway — subway (def 1).
  • tube station — an underground station where underground trains depart and leave, esp in London
  • tuberculated — bearing tubercles, knobbly projections or excrescences
  • tuberculosed — tuberculous
  • tuberculosis — an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
  • tuberiferous — bearing or producing tubers
  • tubocurarine — the principal active alkaloid of curare, C 38 H 44 Cl 2 N 2 O, used as a muscle relaxant, especially as an adjunct to anesthesia.
  • tubular bell — Often, tubular bells. one of a set of tuned metal tubes of different lengths used as a musical instrument, suspended vertically from a frame and struck with a mallet to produce sounds or melodies.
  • tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
  • tumble dryer — A tumble dryer is an electric machine which dries washing by turning it over and over and blowing warm air onto it.
  • tumbler gear — a transmission having gears actuated by a tumbler.
  • turbellarian — belonging to the Turbellaria, a class of platyhelminths or flatworms, mostly aquatic and having cilia on the body surface.
  • turbidimeter — a device for measuring the turbidity of water or other liquids.
  • turbidimetry — a device for measuring the turbidity of water or other liquids.
  • turbo engine — an engine containing a turbocharger
  • 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.
  • turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
  • ubermenschen — superman (def 2).
  • ultraliberal — extremely liberal, especially in politics.
  • un-creatable — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
  • un-furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
  • un-ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
  • un-inducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
  • un-liberated — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
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