12-letter words containing b, u, r, l
- 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.
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- 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.
- 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.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- fosbury flop — a modern high-jumping technique whereby the jumper clears the bar headfirst and backwards
- frequentable — Accessible.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- 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.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- incurability — The quality or state of being incurable—not being able to be cured.
- infundibular — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
- insalubrious — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- instructible — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insurability — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- intertubular — Between tubes or tubules.
- invulnerable — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- invulnerably — In an invulnerable manner.
- irrebuttable — incapable of being rebutted or refuted.