12-letter words containing b, u, o, e
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- 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)
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
- equilibrious — In equilibrium; balanced.
- equiprobable — (of two or more things ) equally likely to occur; having equal probability.
- exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
- flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- 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.
- front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
- full-blooded — of unmixed ancestry; thoroughbred: a full-blooded Cherokee.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- 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.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- hobblebushes — Plural form of hobblebush.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- illusionable — Liable to illusion.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incumbent on — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- indissoluble — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.