12-letter words containing b, u, s, t
- equilibrists — Plural form of equilibrist.
- fibrous root — a root, as in most grasses, having numerous, very fine branches of approximately the same length.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
- fuzzy subset — In fuzzy logic, a fuzzy subset F of a set S is defined by a "membership function" which gives the degree of membership of each element of S belonging to F.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- in substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- incunabulist — a person who specialises in incunabula, a collector of incunabula
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- infusibility — Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- insolubility — incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.
- instructible — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- insubjection — lack of subjection, or the state of being disobedient to an authority, such as a government
- insurability — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- just because — for the sole reason that
- just the job — If you say that something is just the job, you mean that it is exactly what you wanted or needed.
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- lactalbumins — Plural form of lactalbumin.
- lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
- last but one — next to last
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
- masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
- masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- masturbatory — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- 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.
- miss the bus — lose opportunity
- mobius strip — a continuous, one-sided surface formed by twisting one end of a rectangular strip through 180° about the longitudinal axis of the strip and attaching this end to the other.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- 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)
- mount robson — a mountain in SW Canada, in E British Columbia: the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. Height: 3954 m (12 972 ft)