12-letter words containing e, n, l, u
- bubble dance — a solo dance by a nude or nearly nude woman, as in a burlesque show, using one or more balloons for covering.
- bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
- bubble under — to remain just beneath a particular level
- buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
- buckler fern — any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris, such as D. dilatata (broad buckler fern): family Polypodiaceae
- buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- bull session — A bull session is an informal conversation among a small group of people.
- bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
- bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
- bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
- bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
- bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
- calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
- camp lejeune — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.
- canaliculate — having a groove or grooves
- carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
- carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
- carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
- carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
- cash-in-lieu — Cash-in-lieu is payment of cash instead of stock when a stock splits or changes and the shareholder only owns a partial share.
- catechumenal — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
- censoriously — In a censorious manner.
- centuplicate — to increase 100 times
- ch-ien--lung — (Kao Tsung) 1711–99, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1736–96.
- channel surf — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
- channel-surf — to switch TV channels repeatedly using a remote-control device, usually so as to sample brief segments of programs
- chaplinesque — characteristic of or resembling the comedy or filmmaking style of Charlie Chaplin.
- charnelhouse — Alternative form of charnel house.
- chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
- cheerfulness — full of cheer; in good spirits: a cheerful person.
- cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- churlishness — The state of being churlish.
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- circularness — The state or quality of being circular.
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- civil unrest — Civil unrest is fighting between different groups of people living in the same country, and losses caused by this fighting are usually not covered by insurance.
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
- cliquishness — The state of being cliquish.
- closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
- closet queen — a man who is homosexual but does not admit the fact