12-letter words containing d, u, n, e, b
- double ender — a double-ended vessel.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the active medication, treatment, etc., and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias from the test results.
- double-ended — having the two ends alike.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- edwin hubble — Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- 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
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- in (the) bud — in the time of budding
- index number — a quantity whose variation over a period of time measures the change in some phenomenon.
- india rubber — rubber1 (def 1).
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indissoluble — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- laudableness — The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- mandibulated — Provided with mandibles adapted for biting; mandibulate.
- mixed number — a number consisting of a whole number and a fraction or decimal, as 4½ or 4.5.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
- non-dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
- noninducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overburdened — Excessively burdened.
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- purblindness — the state of being purblind
- quarter bend — a 90° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
- redoublement — the act of redoubling