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12-letter words containing n, o, b, u, i

  • bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
  • buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • buying group — an association of companies who use their combined purchasing power to achieve the best prices from suppliers
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
  • buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
  • coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
  • cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
  • colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
  • 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.
  • concubitancy — a custom requiring marriage between two people, esp a custom requiring a woman to marry her husband's brother on her husband's death
  • 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.
  • connubialism — the state of being married
  • connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
  • contributary — contributory
  • contributers — Misspelling of contributors.
  • contributing — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • contribution — If you make a contribution to something, you do something to help make it successful or to produce it.
  • contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • contributors — Plural form of contributor.
  • contributory — A contributory factor of a problem or accident is one of the things which caused it to exist or happen.
  • conurbations — Plural form of conurbation.
  • corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)
  • countability — the fact of being countable
  • cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
  • cumulonimbus — Cumulonimbus is a type of cloud, similar to cumulus, that extends to a great height and is associated with thunderstorms.
  • currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
  • dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
  • discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
  • distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
  • double-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the active medication, treatment, etc., and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias from the test results.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
  • dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
  • elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
  • exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
  • ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
  • forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
  • 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
  • functionable — functional (def 3).
  • gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
  • ground robin — towhee.
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