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12-letter words containing b, u, o, e

  • bounden duty — duty one has a moral obligation to perform
  • bourbon rose — a hybrid rose, Rosa borboniana, having dark, carmine-colored flowers, cultivated in many horticultural varieties.
  • bourgeoisify — to convert to a bourgeois attitude or appearance
  • bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
  • bourne shell — (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]
  • bournonville — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1805–79, Danish ballet dancer and choreographer.
  • bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
  • brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
  • brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
  • break ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • breakthrough — A breakthrough is an important development or achievement.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
  • bridge house — a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.
  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • broad jumper — a participant in the long jump.
  • brochureware — (jargon, business)   A planned, but non-existent, product, like vaporware but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to a competing existing product. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, website revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years.
  • broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
  • brown butter — beurre noir.
  • brush border — a layer of tightly packed minute finger-like protuberances on cells that line absorptive surfaces, such as those of the intestine and kidney
  • brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
  • bubble float — a hollow spherical float that can be weighted with water to aid casting
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • bucket about — (esp of a boat in a storm) to toss or shake violently
  • buenos aires — the capital of Argentina, a major port and industrial city on the Río de la Plata estuary: became capital in 1880; university (1821). Pop: 13 349 000 (2005 est)
  • buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
  • buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
  • buffer force — a force separating two opposing sides
  • buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
  • bugger about — If someone buggers about or buggers around, they waste time doing unnecessary things.
  • bull session — A bull session is an informal conversation among a small group of people.
  • bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
  • burner phone — a disposable cell phone with prepaid service, often used with the intent to temporarily obscure the true identity or contact information of the user: Members of the cartel used burner phones to evade federal surveillance. I always give out the number from my burner phone when I’m going on a blind date.
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • burseraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Burseraceae, a tropical family of trees and shrubs having compound leaves and resin or balsam in their stems. The family includes bdellium and some balsams
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
  • buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • cacao butter — cocoa butter
  • cape buffalo — a large, black, nearly hairless, very fierce buffalo (Syncerus caffer) of South Africa, with horns joined at the bases to form a helmetlike structure
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
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