12-letter words containing b, u, n, t
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- 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 agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- 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-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- encumberment — the act of being encumbered
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- frequentable — Accessible.
- friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
- front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
- gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- 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
- in substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- inaudibility — not audible; incapable of being heard.
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incommutably — In an incommutable manner.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- incomputably — In an incomputable way.
- inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
- incumbent on — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- incunabulist — a person who specialises in incunabula, a collector of incunabula
- incurability — The quality or state of being incurable—not being able to be cured.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.