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12-letter words containing n, u

  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bull session — A bull session is an informal conversation among a small group of people.
  • 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 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
  • bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
  • bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
  • bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
  • bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
  • bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
  • bunny rabbit — rabbit
  • 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)
  • burner phone — a disposable cell phone with prepaid service, often used with the intent to temporarily obscure the true identity or contact information of the user: Members of the cartel used burner phones to evade federal surveillance. I always give out the number from my burner phone when I’m going on a blind date.
  • burning bush — a rutaceous shrub, Dictamnus fraxinella, of S Europe and Asia, whose glands release a volatile inflammable oil that can burn without harming the plant: identified as the bush from which God spoke to Moses (Exodus 3:2–4)
  • burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • 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
  • bushfighting — fighting in the bush
  • bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
  • business end — The business end of a tool or weapon is the end of it which does the work or causes damage rather than the end that you hold.
  • businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
  • butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
  • butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
  • 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 spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
  • 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.
  • cacophonious — cacophonous
  • cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
  • cafe curtain — a short curtain suspended directly downward from a series of rings sliding on a horizontal rod so as to cover the lower and sometimes upper portions of a window.
  • calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
  • calculations — Plural form of calculation.
  • calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
  • calumniating — Present participle of calumniate.
  • calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • calumniously — in a calumnious manner
  • camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
  • camp lejeune — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.
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