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12-letter words containing b, o, t, u, e

  • double first — a first in two subjects.
  • double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
  • 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 steal — a play in which two base runners steal a base each.
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
  • double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
  • doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
  • dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
  • ebulliometer — a device used to determine the boiling point of a solution
  • egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
  • elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
  • equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
  • flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
  • flutterboard — a kickboard.
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
  • front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
  • functionable — functional (def 3).
  • get a bun on — to become drunk
  • ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
  • hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
  • honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
  • incommutable — not exchangeable.
  • incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
  • inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
  • incumbent on — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
  • insubjection — lack of subjection, or the state of being disobedient to an authority, such as a government
  • interborough — between boroughs.
  • interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
  • job security — chances of staying in employment
  • just the job — If you say that something is just the job, you mean that it is exactly what you wanted or needed.
  • last but one — next to last
  • leatherbound — Bound in leather.
  • lemon butter — a spread made of butter flavored with lemon
  • liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
  • microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
  • montes pubis — mons pubis
  • mount elbert — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range. Height: 4399 m (14 431 ft)
  • mount erebus — a volcano in Antarctica, on Ross Island: discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 and named after his ship. Height: 3794 m (12 448 ft)
  • mount kazbek — an extinct volcano in N Georgia in the central Caucasus Mountains. Height: 5047 m (16 558 ft)
  • mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
  • mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
  • mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
  • multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
  • musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
  • muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
  • nebulization — to reduce to fine spray; atomize.
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