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12-letter words containing i, s, u

  • ballet suite — music written for a ballet but suitable or arranged for performance in an orchestral concert.
  • bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
  • barbiturates — any of a group of barbituric acid derivatives, used in medicine as sedatives and hypnotics.
  • barquisimeto — a city in NW Venezuela. Pop: 1 009 000 (2005 est)
  • base bullion — smelted lead containing impurities, as gold, silver, or zinc, that are later removed.
  • base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
  • bashi-bazouk — a member of the notoriously brutal 19th-cent. Turkish irregulars
  • bashibazouks — Plural form of bashibazouk.
  • basque shirt — a knitted pullover shirt having a crew neck, long or short sleeves, and a pattern of horizontal stripes.
  • bathing suit — A bathing suit is a piece of clothing which people wear when they go swimming.
  • bathophilous — (of an organism) living in very deep water
  • bearskin rug — the pelt of a bear, used as a rug
  • beaumarchais — Pierre Augustin Caron de (pjɛr oɡystɛ̃ karɔ̃ də). 1732–99, French dramatist, noted for his comedies The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784)
  • beautifulest — (dated) Most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
  • beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
  • behaviourism — Behaviourism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
  • bell housing — A bell housing is a bell-shaped extension of an engine crankcase, that contains the flywheel and the clutch.
  • big business — Big business is business which involves very large companies and very large sums of money.
  • big-sounding — meant to be impressive in scale
  • bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
  • bio-security — the precautions taken to protect against the spread of lethal or harmful organisms and diseases
  • bioacoustics — the study of animals' use of sound
  • biohazardous — a pathogen, especially one used in or produced by biological research.
  • bird's mouth — a right-angled notch cut in the underside of a rafter for fitting over a longitudinal member, as a wall plate.
  • biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
  • bismuthinite — a grey mineral consisting of bismuth sulphide in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with tin, copper, silver, lead, etc, and is a source of bismuth. Formula: Bi2S3
  • bit stuffing — (protocol)   A protocol which guarantees the receiver of synchronous data can recover the sender's clock. When the data stream sent contains a large number of adjacent bits which cause no transition of the signal, the receiver cannot adjust its clock to maintain proper synchronised reception. To eliminate the possibility of such a pathological case, when a preset number of transitionless bits have been transmitted, a bit which does cause a transition is "stuffed" (transmitted) by the sender. The receiver follows the same protocol and removes the stuffed bit after the specified number of transitionless bits, but can use the stuffed bit to recover the sender's clock. The advantage of bit stuffing is that only a bit (not a byte) is inserted in the data stream, and that only when the content of the data stream fails to provide a timing signal to the receiver. Thus very nearly 100% of the bits transported are useful data. In contrast, asynchronous transmission of data "throws away" a start bit and one or more stop bits for each data byte sent.
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • biuniqueness — the quality of a one-to-one correspondence
  • black muslim — a member of the Black Muslims
  • blastulation — the process of blastula formation
  • blind summit — a point on a road where a vehicle approaching the top of a hill or incline cannot see vehicles approaching up the other side of the hill
  • blissfulness — full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
  • blister rust — a disease of certain pines caused by rust fungi of the genus Cronartium, causing swellings on the bark from which orange masses of spores are released
  • blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • blue devil's — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
  • blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
  • blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • blue swimmer — an edible bluish Australian swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
  • blue thistle — blueweed (def 1).
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • blue-thistle — Also called blue thistle. a bristly weed, Echium vulgare, of the borage family, having showy blue flowers, a native of Europe naturalized in the U.S.
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • boiler house — a building housing a boiler
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
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