12-letter words containing n, o, b, u
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground robin — towhee.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- higgs bugson — (humour) A hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal user reports. The Higgs Bugson is difficult to reproduce because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. To find one you will need a Large Hadron Debugger.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honour-bound — morally obliged
- horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- ibizan hound — one of a breed of medium-sized, tall, swift hunting hounds with a short, usually red and white coat, bred originally by the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt but today found chiefly in the Balearic Islands and other areas of Spain.
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- illusionable — Liable to illusion.
- immunoglobin — (immunology, protein) Any protein that functions as an antibody.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incommutably — In an incommutable manner.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- incomputably — In an incomputable way.
- inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incumbent on — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- indissoluble — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- indissolubly — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- infibulation — the stitching together of the vulva, often after a clitoridectomy, leaving a small opening for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
- ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
- insalubrious — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- insolubility — incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.
- insolubilize — to make incapable of dissolving: a resin insolubilized by heat.
- insubjection — lack of subjection, or the state of being disobedient to an authority, such as a government
- insubmission — Lack of submission; disobedience.
- insupposable — Incapable of being supposed; inconceivable.
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- junction box — an enclosure that houses electric wires or cables that are joined together and protects the connections.
- jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- last but one — next to last