12-letter words containing b, u, n, g, e
- buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- 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
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
- disburdening — Present participle of disburden.
- 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.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- 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)
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- 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.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- gullibleness — Gullibility.
- gum-benjamin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- inexpugnable — incapable of being taken by force; impregnable; unconquerable.
- inexpungible — that cannot be expunged, erased, or obliterated; inextirpable.
- ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
- inner-tubing — tubing (def 4).
- interborough — between boroughs.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
- jungle bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- jungle-bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- kneeling bus — a bus that can lower its body or entrance door to facilitate boarding by the elderly or people with disabilities.
- laguna beach — a town in S California.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
- mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
- moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- mutable sign — any of the four astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, that are grouped together because of their placement at the end of the seasons and characterized by the attribute of adaptability to circumstances.
- neighbouring — (British, Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.