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

  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lumbersexual — a man whose style of dress and appearance is reminiscent of the ruggedly masculine stereotype of the lumberjack, as in wearing plaid shirts and having a beard.
  • luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
  • macaberesque — resembling or suggestive of the danse macabre; macabre
  • magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
  • maneuverable — capable of being steered or directed; easy to maneuver: The polyethylene craft remains as durable and maneuverable as any conventional high-performance kayak.
  • manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
  • maple butter — thickened maple syrup
  • marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
  • mare imbrium — (Sea of Showers) a dark plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon: about 340,000 sq. mi. (880,000 sq. km).
  • mare liberum — a body of navigable water to which all nations have unrestricted access.
  • market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
  • meker burner — a gas burner similar to the Bunsen burner but producing a hotter flame by virtue of having at its mouth a metal screen to allow a more intimate mixture of air and gas.
  • metal lumber — a brand of sheet metal pressed and welded together to form joists and studding.
  • microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
  • microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
  • middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
  • misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
  • mixed number — a number consisting of a whole number and a fraction or decimal, as 4½ or 4.5.
  • moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • 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)
  • 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
  • munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
  • murderabilia — objects that are regarded as valuable because of their connection with murders or other notorious crimes
  • murfreesboro — a city in central Tennessee: battle of Stone River (or Murfreesboro) 1862.
  • murrumbidgee — a river in SE Australia, flowing W through New South Wales to the Murray River. 1050 miles (1690 km) long.
  • muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
  • muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
  • musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
  • 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.
  • neutron bomb — a nuclear bomb designed to release radiation consisting mainly of neutrons, thus causing extensive loss of life but relatively little damage to buildings and property and only brief radioactive contamination.
  • new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
  • nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
  • nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
  • non-arguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.
  • noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
  • nonturbulent — Not turbulent.
  • not-a-number — (mathematics)   (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
  • nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
  • number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
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