12-letter words containing b, u, r, l, a
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- confabulator — to converse informally; chat.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
- corbel vault — a structure having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch.
- coulrophobia — an abnormal fear of clowns.
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- crumble away — disintegrate
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- culebra peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,069 feet (4288 meters).
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- drawbar pull — the force, measured in pounds, available to a locomotive for pulling rolling stock after overcoming its own tractive resistance.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
- 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.
- equiprobable — (of two or more things ) equally likely to occur; having equal probability.
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- frequentable — Accessible.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- half-cup bra — a bra that covers three-quarters of the breasts rather than all of the breasts
- 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
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.