12-letter words containing b, u, e, n
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- contributers — Misspelling of contributors.
- contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- counterbluff — a bluff made in opposition to another bluff
- counterbrace — a rope on the leeward side of a ship, controlling the position of the fore-topsail
- country-bred — brought up in the country
- culpableness — The state or quality of being culpable.
- cumbrousness — The state or quality of being cumbrous.
- currency bar — a long narrow iron bar, often sword-like or spear-like in shape, dating from the pre-Roman and Roman period in Britain; the purpose of currency bars is not certain, and while they may have been used in trade, they may have had a ritual significance
- cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- danube river — a river in central and SE Europe, flowing E from southern Germany to the Black Sea. 1725 miles (2775 km) long.
- debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- disburdening — Present participle of disburden.
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- disencumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disencumber.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- 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.
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- double ender — a double-ended vessel.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the active medication, treatment, etc., and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias from the test results.
- double-ended — having the two ends alike.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- edwin hubble — Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- ellenborough — Earl of, title of Edward Law. 1780–1871, British colonial administrator: governor general of India (1742–44)
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- encumberment — the act of being encumbered
- encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.