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

  • circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
  • cluster bomb — A cluster bomb is a type of bomb which is dropped from an aircraft. It contains a large number of smaller bombs that spread out before they hit the ground.
  • collembolous — of or relating to colembolans
  • columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
  • combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
  • communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
  • communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • compoundable — That can be compounded.
  • computer bus — bus
  • connubialism — the state of being married
  • cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
  • costume ball — a fancy dress ball
  • cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
  • cumbrousness — The state or quality of being cumbrous.
  • cumulonimbus — Cumulonimbus is a type of cloud, similar to cumulus, that extends to a great height and is associated with thunderstorms.
  • currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
  • 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.
  • cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
  • deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
  • 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.
  • double album — a commercial recording sold on two CDs or LPs
  • double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
  • 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 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 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.
  • dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
  • dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
  • ebulliometer — a device used to determine the boiling point of a solution
  • embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
  • exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
  • ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
  • funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
  • gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
  • homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
  • homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
  • house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
  • humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
  • ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
  • immunoglobin — (immunology, protein) Any protein that functions as an antibody.
  • incommutable — not exchangeable.
  • incommutably — In an incommutable manner.
  • incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
  • incomputably — In an incomputable way.
  • inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
  • incumbent on — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
  • insubmission — Lack of submission; disobedience.
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