12-letter words containing n, a, l, b, 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.
- buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
- buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
- bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
- bullamakanka — an imaginary very remote and backward place
- bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
- burial mound — a barrow
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- 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)
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
- carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
- celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- confabulator — to converse informally; chat.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- connubialism — the state of being married
- connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
- constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
- countability — the fact of being countable
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- culpableness — The state or quality of being culpable.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- frequentable — Accessible.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.