12-letter words containing b, o, u, g
- breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
- bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
- bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
- buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
- bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
- bulldog clip — A bulldog clip is a metal clip with a spring lever that opens and closes two flat pieces of metal. It is used for holding papers together.
- bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
- burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
- burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
- bus topology — bus
- buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
- buying group — an association of companies who use their combined purchasing power to achieve the best prices from suppliers
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- contributing — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)
- 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
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
- 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 bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
- double eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., issued from 1849 to 1933, equal to 2 eagles or 20 dollars.
- double fugue — a fugue with two subjects developed simultaneously.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
- double-edged — having two cutting edges, as a razor blade.
- double-glaze — If someone double-glazes a house or its windows, they fit windows that have two layers of glass which keeps the inside of the house warmer and quieter.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
- dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- ellenborough — Earl of, title of Edward Law. 1780–1871, British colonial administrator: governor general of India (1742–44)
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.