12-letter words containing i, t, o, u
- boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
- boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
- boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
- bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
- bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
- 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.
- bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
- bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
- bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
- box junction — (in Britain) a road junction having yellow cross-hatching painted on the road surface. Vehicles may only enter the hatched area when their exit is clear
- brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
- bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
- bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
- bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
- 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.
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
- button quail — any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)
- buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
- by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
- calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
- calculations — Plural form of calculation.
- calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- capitulation — the act of capitulating
- capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
- captiousness — The state of being captious.
- catacoustics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes and reflected sounds
- catamountain — any of several wildcats, esp. the leopard or the European wildcat
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- causationism — the theory of universal causation
- causationist — a person who believes in the theory of universal causation
- caustic soda — Caustic soda is a powerful chemical substance used to make strong soaps and clean drains.
- cautiousness — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- cellulolytic — relating to or causing the hydrolysis of the complex carbohydrate cellulose
- cementitious — of, relating to, or characteristic of cement
- centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
- chaetiferous — having bristles
- cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
- chinhuangtao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- 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
- circuitously — roundabout; not direct: a circuitous route; a circuitous argument.
- circulations — Plural form of circulation.
- circumlocute — to speak in a circuitous way
- circumrotary — Alternative form of circumrotatory.