12-letter words containing b, u, t, e
- 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
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- 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)
- mount kazbek — an extinct volcano in N Georgia in the central Caucasus Mountains. Height: 5047 m (16 558 ft)
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- 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.
- multipliable — capable of being multiplied.
- multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
- mumblety-peg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- mutable sign — any of the four astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, that are grouped together because of their placement at the end of the seasons and characterized by the attribute of adaptability to circumstances.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- nebulization — to reduce to fine spray; atomize.
- nebulosities — Plural form of nebulosity.
- 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.
- non-dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
- nonincumbent — a candidate or party in an election that does not already hold the position
- 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.
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- objet trouve — found object.
- obmutescence — persistent silence
- obreptitious — having the characteristics of acquiring something by deceitful means
- obstreperous — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
- obtuse angle — an angle greater than 90° but less than 180°.
- of substance — wealthy
- out at elbow — ragged or impoverished
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- over-trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- pause button — a button on a video or music player which can be pressed to temporarily stop the playing of the recording
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
- peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
- petit beurre — a small, usually oblong butter cookie.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- picture tube — a cathode-ray tube with a screen at one end on which images are reproduced.