12-letter words containing b, i, u, r, e
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- neighbouring — (British, Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
- neoytterbium — ytterbium.
- neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- obreptitious — having the characteristics of acquiring something by deceitful means
- on your bike — away you go
- orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
- petit beurre — a small, usually oblong butter cookie.
- 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.
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- picture tube — a cathode-ray tube with a screen at one end on which images are reproduced.
- pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- powerbuilder — (tool, database) A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- presubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- prime number — a positive integer that is not divisible without remainder by any integer except itself and 1, with 1 often excluded: The integers 2, 3, 5, and 7 are prime numbers.
- probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
- pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
- pulverizable — that can be pulverized
- purblindness — the state of being purblind
- rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
- re-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- 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.
- rebelliously — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
- recarburizer — to add carbon to (steel), as in an open-hearth furnace, as by adding pig iron.
- redistribute — to distribute again or anew: The corporation will redistribute its share of the profits to its stockholders.
- reducibility — capable of being reduced.
- reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
- reimbursable — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- reputability — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.