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

  • connubialism — the state of being married
  • connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
  • constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
  • corbel vault — a structure having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch.
  • costume ball — a fancy dress ball
  • coulrophobia — an abnormal fear of clowns.
  • countability — the fact of being countable
  • counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
  • counterbluff — a bluff made in opposition to another bluff
  • country club — A country club is a club in the country where you can play sports and attend social events.
  • cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
  • cuir-bouilli — a type of leather hardened by soaking in wax, used for armour before the 14th century
  • cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
  • cumulonimbus — Cumulonimbus is a type of cloud, similar to cumulus, that extends to a great height and is associated with thunderstorms.
  • custom-build — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
  • custom-built — If something is custom-built, it is built according to someone's special requirements.
  • customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
  • customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
  • daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
  • dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
  • 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
  • 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).
  • 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.
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