12-letter words containing b, u, l, y
- crumble away — disintegrate
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
- cyberculture — a unique set of habits, values, and other elements of culture that have evolved from the use of computers and the Internet.
- daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
- 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 dummy — a variety of bridge for two players in which two hands are kept face down until the end of the bidding when both hands are exposed.
- 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 rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- equitability — The quality of being equitable; equitableness.
- family album — photos of a family
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- fosbury flop — a modern high-jumping technique whereby the jumper clears the bar headfirst and backwards
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immutability — not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.
- imputability — The character of being imputable.
- inaudibility — not audible; incapable of being heard.
- incalculably — very numerous or great.
- incommutably — In an incommutable manner.
- incomputably — In an incomputable way.
- incurability — The quality or state of being incurable—not being able to be cured.
- indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indissolubly — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- inducibility — the quality or condition of being inducible
- infusibility — Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved.
- insolubility — incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insurability — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- invulnerably — In an invulnerable manner.
- jubilee year — jubilee (def 5a).
- jungle bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- jungle-bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906.
- labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
- lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- libidinously — In a libidinous manner.