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12-letter words containing n, e, u, t

  • ayuntamiento — (in Spain) a municipal council
  • bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
  • banquet room — A banquet room is a room in a hotel where large formal meals for many people can be held.
  • basset hound — A basset hound is a dog with short strong legs, a long body, and long ears. It is kept as a pet or used for hunting.
  • battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
  • bayonet bulb — an electric light bulb which is inserted into the socket against spring pressure and turned so that pins on its side engage in slots in the socket
  • bean counter — You can describe people such as accountants and business managers as bean counters if you disapprove of them because you think they are only interested in money.
  • bean sprouts — the sprouts of newly germinated mung beans, eaten as a vegetable, esp in Chinese dishes
  • beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
  • beat up (on) — to give a beating to; thrash
  • beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
  • beauty queen — A beauty queen is a woman who has won a beauty contest.
  • beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
  • befuddlement — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
  • belly button — Your belly button is the small round thing in the centre of your stomach.
  • benefit club — a club whose members enjoy certain benefits, such as reduced prices for travel or sporting events
  • bequeathment — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
  • beyond doubt — You say that something is beyond doubt or beyond reasonable doubt when you are certain that it is true and it cannot be contradicted or disproved.
  • bien entendu — certainly; to be sure
  • birket karun — a lake in N Egypt. 25 miles (40 km) long; about 5 miles (8 km) wide; 90 sq. mi. (233 sq. km).
  • 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
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • black tongue — canine pellagra.
  • blue norther — a cold north wind that brings rapidly falling temperatures.
  • blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • bluefin tuna — the largest tuna (Thunnus thynnus): it has bright red flesh and is important as a game and food fish
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • bonnet rouge — a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
  • 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
  • bounden duty — duty one has a moral obligation to perform
  • broncobuster — (in the western US and Canada) a cowboy who breaks in broncos or wild horses
  • brown butter — beurre noir.
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • bucket bench — a Pennsylvania Dutch dresser having a lower portion closed with doors for milk pails, an open shelf for water pails, and an upper section with shallow drawers.
  • buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • 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.
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
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