12-letter words containing b, u, o, e
- ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
- insolubilize — to make incapable of dissolving: a resin insolubilized by heat.
- insubjection — lack of subjection, or the state of being disobedient to an authority, such as a government
- insupposable — Incapable of being supposed; inconceivable.
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- johore bahru — a city in and the capital of Johore state, Malaysia, in the S part.
- jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
- just the job — If you say that something is just the job, you mean that it is exactly what you wanted or needed.
- knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- last but one — next to last
- le corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- lemon butter — a spread made of butter flavored with lemon
- liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
- lillibullero — a part of the refrain to a song deriding the Irish Roman Catholics, popular in England during and after the revolution of 1688.
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
- manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- mount elbert — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range. Height: 4399 m (14 431 ft)
- mount erebus — a volcano in Antarctica, on Ross Island: discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 and named after his ship. Height: 3794 m (12 448 ft)
- mount kazbek — an extinct volcano in N Georgia in the central Caucasus Mountains. Height: 5047 m (16 558 ft)
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
- mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- murfreesboro — a city in central Tennessee: battle of Stone River (or Murfreesboro) 1862.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- nebulization — to reduce to fine spray; atomize.
- nebulosities — Plural form of nebulosity.
- nebulousness — The characteristic of being nebulous.
- neighbouring — (British, Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
- neoytterbium — ytterbium.
- neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.