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

  • lillibullero — a part of the refrain to a song deriding the Irish Roman Catholics, popular in England during and after the revolution of 1688.
  • louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
  • lubberliness — Quality of being lubberly.
  • lumber river — a river in S central North Carolina and NE South Carolina, flowing SE and S to the Little Pee Dee River. 125 miles (201 km) long.
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lumbersexual — a man whose style of dress and appearance is reminiscent of the ruggedly masculine stereotype of the lumberjack, as in wearing plaid shirts and having a beard.
  • luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
  • maneuverable — capable of being steered or directed; easy to maneuver: The polyethylene craft remains as durable and maneuverable as any conventional high-performance kayak.
  • manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
  • maple butter — thickened maple syrup
  • mare liberum — a body of navigable water to which all nations have unrestricted access.
  • metal lumber — a brand of sheet metal pressed and welded together to form joists and studding.
  • microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
  • microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
  • middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
  • mount elbert — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range. Height: 4399 m (14 431 ft)
  • multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
  • murderabilia — objects that are regarded as valuable because of their connection with murders or other notorious crimes
  • muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
  • muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
  • neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
  • nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
  • nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
  • non-arguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.
  • noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
  • nonturbulent — Not turbulent.
  • nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • numbers pool — 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.
  • 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.
  • orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
  • over-trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
  • overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
  • oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
  • 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).
  • prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
  • probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
  • 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.
  • pulp chamber — the crown portion of the pulp cavity.
  • pulverizable — that can be pulverized
  • purblindness — the state of being purblind
  • purple beech — copper beech.
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