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

  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
  • polybutylene — any of several polymers of butylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of lubricants and synthetic rubber.
  • pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
  • post-puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
  • press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
  • probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
  • prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
  • protuberancy — protuberance.
  • pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
  • public house — British. a tavern.
  • public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
  • questionable — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
  • questionably — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
  • quotableness — the condition or quality of being quotable
  • rabble-rouse — to stir up the emotions or prejudices of the public; agitate.
  • rebelliously — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
  • redoublement — the act of redoubling
  • renounceable — of a nature that can be renounced
  • reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • reset button — control that restores a default setting
  • resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
  • revenue bond — a bond issued, as by a municipal utility, to finance a specific project, the income from which will be used for repaying the bond.
  • reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
  • ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
  • rubber boots — wellingtons: footwear worn in rain
  • rubber goods — contraceptives; condoms
  • safe harbour — a place that offers protection from the weather, attack, etc
  • schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
  • scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
  • semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
  • shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
  • shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
  • shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
  • slave labour — Slave labour refers to slaves or to work done by slaves.
  • snout beetle — weevil (def 1).
  • soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
  • sorbo rubber — spongy form of rubber
  • sorghum beer — beer made from sorghum or millet
  • soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
  • statute book — a book containing the laws enacted by the legislature of a state or nation.
  • stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
  • stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
  • storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
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