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

  • neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
  • neutron bomb — a nuclear bomb designed to release radiation consisting mainly of neutrons, thus causing extensive loss of life but relatively little damage to buildings and property and only brief radioactive contamination.
  • nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
  • non-arguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.
  • non-culpable — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
  • non-dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
  • non-fungible — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
  • noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
  • nonincumbent — a candidate or party in an election that does not already hold the position
  • noninducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
  • nonturbulent — Not turbulent.
  • not-a-number — (mathematics)   (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
  • nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
  • number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
  • numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • nuxi problem — (data, architecture)   /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
  • obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
  • oberammergau — a village in S Germany, SW of Munich: famous for the passion play performed there every ten years.
  • object value — (jargon)   In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
  • objet trouve — found object.
  • obmutescence — persistent silence
  • oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
  • obreptitious — having the characteristics of acquiring something by deceitful means
  • obsequiously — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
  • obstreperous — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
  • obtuse angle — an angle greater than 90° but less than 180°.
  • of substance — wealthy
  • ohio buckeye — See under buckeye (def 1).
  • ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
  • on your bike — away you go
  • opera bouffe — a comic opera, especially of farcical character.
  • order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
  • orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
  • out at elbow — ragged or impoverished
  • outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
  • over-trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
  • overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
  • overburdened — Excessively burdened.
  • oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
  • pause button — a button on a video or music player which can be pressed to temporarily stop the playing of the recording
  • peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • perturbation — the act of perturbing.
  • peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
  • petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • phone number — of individual, business
  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
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