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12-letter words containing b, o, u, r, n, i

  • ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
  • insalubrious — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
  • interborough — between boroughs.
  • interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
  • labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
  • laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
  • lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
  • lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
  • masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
  • mooring buoy — a buoy to which ships or boats can be moored.
  • musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
  • musturbation — (psychology) The compulsive insistence that things ought to be a particular way.
  • muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
  • neighbouring — (British, Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
  • neoytterbium — ytterbium.
  • neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
  • neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
  • neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
  • nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
  • nimbostratus — a cloud of a class characterized by a formless layer that is almost uniformly dark gray; a rain cloud of the layer type, of low altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2440 meters).
  • northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
  • 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.
  • obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
  • obstructions — Plural form of obstruction.
  • on your bike — away you go
  • orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
  • osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
  • outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
  • overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
  • perturbation — the act of perturbing.
  • petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
  • ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
  • rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
  • running bond — a brickwork bond having successive courses of overlapping stretchers.
  • ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
  • samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
  • slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
  • spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
  • stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
  • stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
  • sub-religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
  • subarachnoid — of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
  • subarcuation — a structure that is somewhat arched
  • suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
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