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12-letter words containing b, l, e, u

  • customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
  • cyberculture — a unique set of habits, values, and other elements of culture that have evolved from the use of computers and the Internet.
  • daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
  • day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
  • deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
  • debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
  • debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
  • destructible — capable of being or liable to be destroyed
  • desublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • devil's club — a spiny shrub, Oplopanax horridus, of northwestern North America, having broad palmate leaves, greenish flowers, and clusters of bright red berries.
  • dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
  • discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
  • disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
  • disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
  • djebel druze — Jebel ed Druz.
  • documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
  • dole bludger — a person who collects unemployment benefits but makes no serious effort to get work.
  • 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 album — a commercial recording sold on two CDs or LPs
  • double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
  • double block — a block having two sheaves or pulleys.
  • double bluff — deceit
  • double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
  • double bucky — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk --- ESR). See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
  • double cloth — a cloth used in overcoating, blankets, brocade, etc., made by interweaving two physically discrete fabrics at various points in the pattern by bringing warp and fill yarns from each through the other to be worked on the opposite face of the compound fabric.
  • double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
  • double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
  • double doors — set of 2 doors side by side
  • double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
  • double dummy — a variety of bridge for two players in which two hands are kept face down until the end of the bidding when both hands are exposed.
  • double dutch — a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
  • double eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., issued from 1849 to 1933, equal to 2 eagles or 20 dollars.
  • double ender — a double-ended vessel.
  • double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
  • double fault — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) two faults in succession, resulting in the loss of the point, the loss of the serve, or both.
  • double first — a first in two subjects.
  • double fugue — a fugue with two subjects developed simultaneously.
  • double helix — the spiral arrangement of the two complementary strands of DNA.
  • double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
  • double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
  • double modal — a syntactic construction in which two modal auxiliaries occur consecutively within a clause, as might could in I might could help you.
  • double piece — a piece of plate armor for reinforcing or replacing a piece ordinarily used in a suit.
  • double quote — (character)   '"' ASCII character 34. Often used in programming languages to delimit strings. In Unix shells and Perl it delimits a string inside which variable substitution may occur. Common names: quote. Rare: literal mark; double-glitch; ITU-T: quotation marks; ITU-T: dieresis; dirk; INTERCAL: rabbit-ears; double prime.
  • double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
  • double scull — a racing shell in which two scullers sit one behind the other and pull two oars each
  • double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
  • double steal — a play in which two base runners steal a base each.
  • double sugar — disaccharide.
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
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