12-letter words containing i, b, r, t, u
- distributive — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- distributors — Plural form of distributor.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
- ebulliometer — a device used to determine the boiling point of a solution
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
- equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
- equilibrists — Plural form of equilibrist.
- fibrous root — a root, as in most grasses, having numerous, very fine branches of approximately the same length.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- incurability — The quality or state of being incurable—not being able to be cured.
- inner-tubing — tubing (def 4).
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- instructible — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- insurability — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- intertubular — Between tubes or tubules.
- irrebuttable — incapable of being rebutted or refuted.
- jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
- liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
- 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.
- masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
- masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- microtubular — Of or pertaining to microtubules.
- 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.
- 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.
- multilobular — having several or many lobules.
- multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems