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12-letter words containing b, r, u, e

  • numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
  • 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.
  • obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
  • oberammergau — a village in S Germany, SW of Munich: famous for the passion play performed there every ten years.
  • objet trouve — found object.
  • oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
  • obreptitious — having the characteristics of acquiring something by deceitful means
  • obstreperous — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
  • ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
  • on your bike — away you go
  • opera bouffe — a comic opera, especially of farcical character.
  • order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
  • orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
  • outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
  • over-trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
  • overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
  • overburdened — Excessively burdened.
  • oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
  • pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • perturbation — the act of perturbing.
  • perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
  • peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
  • petit beurre — a small, usually oblong butter cookie.
  • 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.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • phone number — of individual, business
  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
  • picture tube — a cathode-ray tube with a screen at one end on which images are reproduced.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
  • pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
  • post-puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • 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.
  • prepubescent — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
  • prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
  • presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
  • press bureau — an organization or a department whose function is press-agentry.
  • press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
  • presubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
  • prime number — a positive integer that is not divisible without remainder by any integer except itself and 1, with 1 often excluded: The integers 2, 3, 5, and 7 are prime numbers.
  • probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
  • prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
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