12-letter words containing b, u, r, e, t
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- 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.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- frequentable — Accessible.
- front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- inner-tubing — tubing (def 4).
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- instructible — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- intertubular — Between tubes or tubules.
- irrebuttable — incapable of being rebutted or refuted.
- jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- latex rubber — rubber used to make many products such as gloves, condoms, etc, and which is made from latex, a whitish milky fluid containing protein, starch, alkaloids, etc, that is produced by many plants
- 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.
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- maple butter — thickened maple syrup
- market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
- metal lumber — a brand of sheet metal pressed and welded together to form joists and studding.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- 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)
- 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.
- multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- neoytterbium — ytterbium.
- 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.
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- 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.
- number plate — vehicle's registration panel
- numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.