12-letter words containing b, u, n, d
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground robin — towhee.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- honour-bound — morally obliged
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- ibizan hound — one of a breed of medium-sized, tall, swift hunting hounds with a short, usually red and white coat, bred originally by the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt but today found chiefly in the Balearic Islands and other areas of Spain.
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- in (the) bud — in the time of budding
- inaudibility — not audible; incapable of being heard.
- index number — a quantity whose variation over a period of time measures the change in some phenomenon.
- india rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indissoluble — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- indissolubly — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- inducibility — the quality or condition of being inducible
- infundibular — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- infundibulum — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- laudableness — The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- libidinously — In a libidinous manner.
- mandibulated — Provided with mandibles adapted for biting; mandibulate.
- massaranduba — any of various evergreen trees of the genus Manilkara of the family Sapotaceae that are native to the tropics
- mind-numbing — If you describe an event or experience as mind-numbing, you mean that it is so bad, boring, or great in extent that you are unable to think about it clearly.
- mixed number — a number consisting of a whole number and a fraction or decimal, as 4½ or 4.5.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- non-dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
- noninducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- oda nobunaga — 1534–82, Japanese general and feudal leader, who unified much of Japan under his control: assassinated
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
- out-building — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overburdened — Excessively burdened.
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- pudding club — the state of being pregnant (esp in the phrase in the pudding club)
- purblindness — the state of being purblind