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12-letter words containing e, r, o, n, u

  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
  • bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
  • bourbon rose — a hybrid rose, Rosa borboniana, having dark, carmine-colored flowers, cultivated in many horticultural varieties.
  • bourne shell — (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]
  • bournonville — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1805–79, Danish ballet dancer and choreographer.
  • brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
  • break ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
  • brown butter — beurre noir.
  • buenos aires — the capital of Argentina, a major port and industrial city on the Río de la Plata estuary: became capital in 1880; university (1821). Pop: 13 349 000 (2005 est)
  • bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
  • burner phone — a disposable cell phone with prepaid service, often used with the intent to temporarily obscure the true identity or contact information of the user: Members of the cartel used burner phones to evade federal surveillance. I always give out the number from my burner phone when I’m going on a blind date.
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
  • buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • canorousness — The quality of being musical.
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
  • card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
  • carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
  • cater-cousin — a close friend
  • censoriously — In a censorious manner.
  • centre court — the main court of a tennis complex, esp at Wimbledon
  • centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
  • change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
  • changearound — the act of changing to a different position
  • charnelhouse — Alternative form of charnel house.
  • chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
  • chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
  • chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
  • churchperson — A person involved with the church; a churchgoer or cleric.
  • cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
  • circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
  • cloud banner — banner cloud.
  • co-extrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
  • cocksureness — The state or condition of being cocksure.
  • coconut tree — palm tree: bears coconuts
  • colorfulness — the quality of being colourful
  • colour index — the difference between the apparent magnitude of a star measured in one standard waveband and in a longer standard waveband, indicating its colour and temperature
  • column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
  • columnarized — columnar (def 3).
  • come running — hurry, rush
  • comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
  • commensurate — If the level of one thing is commensurate with another, the first level is in proportion to the second.
  • compte rendu — a short review or notice, esp of a book
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