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12-letter words containing b, u, m

  • cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
  • circumbinary — (astronomy) Of, pertaining to, or having an orbit around a binary star.
  • circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
  • circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
  • cluster bomb — A cluster bomb is a type of bomb which is dropped from an aircraft. It contains a large number of smaller bombs that spread out before they hit the ground.
  • collembolous — of or relating to colembolans
  • columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
  • combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
  • communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
  • communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • compoundable — That can be compounded.
  • computer bus — bus
  • connubialism — the state of being married
  • 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)
  • costume ball — a fancy dress ball
  • creme brulee — a cream or custard dessert covered with caramelized sugar
  • crime-buster — a law officer who specializes in fighting large-scale organized crime
  • crumble away — disintegrate
  • cub mistress — a woman who organizes a pack of cub scouts
  • cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
  • cumbrousness — The state or quality of being cumbrous.
  • cumulonimbus — Cumulonimbus is a type of cloud, similar to cumulus, that extends to a great height and is associated with thunderstorms.
  • currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
  • cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
  • custom-build — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
  • custom-built — If something is custom-built, it is built according to someone's special requirements.
  • customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
  • customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
  • cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
  • deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
  • desublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
  • disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • disencumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disencumber.
  • distributism — a socioeconomic theory and system advocating widespread ownership of private property and the means of production: based on late 19th-century Catholic teachings on economic and social justice.
  • 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.
  • double album — a commercial recording sold on two CDs or LPs
  • double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
  • 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 major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
  • double modal — a syntactic construction in which two modal auxiliaries occur consecutively within a clause, as might could in I might could help you.
  • 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.
  • dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
  • dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
  • ebulliometer — a device used to determine the boiling point of a solution
  • embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
  • emulsifiable — That can be emulsified, or applied in an emulsion.
  • encumberment — the act of being encumbered
  • encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
  • encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
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