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12-letter words containing b, u, k

  • bucket about — (esp of a boat in a storm) to toss or shake violently
  • bucket bench — a Pennsylvania Dutch dresser having a lower portion closed with doors for milk pails, an open shelf for water pails, and an upper section with shallow drawers.
  • bucket truck — a truck with an attached aerial lift or movable boom.
  • buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
  • buckler fern — any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris, such as D. dilatata (broad buckler fern): family Polypodiaceae
  • buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
  • bulk carrier — a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
  • bulk modulus — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance equal to minus the ratio of the applied stress (p) to the resulting fractional change in volume (dV/V) in a specified reference state (dV/V is the bulk strain)
  • bullamakanka — an imaginary very remote and backward place
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • burj khalifa — a slender tapering skyscraper in Dubai; completed in 2009; the world's tallest man-made structure, standing at 828m (2716 ft)
  • burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
  • bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
  • bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
  • businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
  • butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
  • cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
  • crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
  • culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
  • dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
  • double block — a block having two sheaves or pulleys.
  • double bucky — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk --- ESR). See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
  • double-check — a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
  • double-click — to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file: Double-click on the desktop icon.
  • double-quick — very quick or rapid.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
  • duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
  • fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
  • fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
  • futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
  • go walkabout — to wander through the bush
  • grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
  • honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
  • house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
  • housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
  • jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
  • k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
  • kit-cat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
  • kit-kat club — a club of Whig wits, painters, politicians, and men of letters, including Robert Walpole, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Godfrey Kneller, that flourished in London between 1703 and 1720.
  • kneeling bus — a bus that can lower its body or entrance door to facilitate boarding by the elderly or people with disabilities.
  • knuckle ball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
  • knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
  • knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
  • lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
  • make-up base — a primer of make-up applied to the face in order to prepare it for the main layer of make-up
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