12-letter words containing b, s, u
- thumb-sucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- tool subject — a subject that, when mastered, equips students with a skill useful in studying other subjects: Grammar is a tool subject for English composition.
- trouble spot — an area in which trouble exists or is expected to develop: There are several diplomatic trouble spots in Central America.
- troubleshoot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- truss bridge — a bridge in which the loads are supported by trusses.
- trustability — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- tube station — an underground station where underground trains depart and leave, esp in London
- tuberculosed — tuberculous
- tuberculosis — an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
- tuberiferous — bearing or producing tubers
- tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
- turbinacious — with a peaty aroma or flavour
- turbo pascal — (language, product) Borland International's Pascal. Perhaps the first integrated development environment for MS-DOS. Versions 1.0-3.0: standard Pascal with a few extensions Versions 4.0 (1987) and 5.0: separate compilation. Version 5.5: object-oriented. Version 6.0: Turbo Vision OOP library.
- turkish bath — a bath in which the bather, after copious perspiration in a steam room, showers and has a rubdown.
- ubangi-shari — former name of the Central African Republic.
- ubermenschen — superman (def 2).
- ubiquitously — existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent: ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.
- un-furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- unaccessible — easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
- unadjustable — capable of being adjusted: adjustable seat belts.
- unanalysable — not able to be analysed or examined
- unanswerable — not capable of being answered; not having a known or discoverable answer: an unanswerable question.
- unappeasable — to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
- unappeasably — in an unappeasable manner
- unascendable — not able to be ascended or climbed
- unassailable — not open to attack or assault, as by military force or argument: unassailable fortifications; unassailable logic.
- unassailably — not open to attack or assault, as by military force or argument: unassailable fortifications; unassailable logic.
- unassessable — to estimate officially the value of (property, income, etc.) as a basis for taxation.
- unassignable — not able to be transferred
- unbesmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- unburdensome — oppressively heavy; onerous.
- uncapsizable — (of a boat, etc) that cannot be capsized
- uncomposable — not fit for composition
- unconsolable — to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
- undefensible — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
- undigestible — indigestible.
- undisputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- undissembled — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
- undisturbing — not disturbing
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- uninvestable — that can be invested.
- union buster — any of a group of persons hired by a company to disperse picketers, end a strike or job action, etc., especially by violence or intimidation.
- unlibidinous — not libidinous
- unlistenable — that cannot be listened to agreeably or comfortably.
- unmeasurable — of undetermined or indefinitely great extent or amount; unlimited; measureless: the unmeasured heavens.
- unmeasurably — of undetermined or indefinitely great extent or amount; unlimited; measureless: the unmeasured heavens.
- unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- unmistakably — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- unobservable — incapable of observation; imperceptible