12-letter words containing o, b, n, u
- 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
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- counterbluff — a bluff made in opposition to another bluff
- counterbrace — a rope on the leeward side of a ship, controlling the position of the fore-topsail
- country club — A country club is a club in the country where you can play sports and attend social events.
- country-born — born in the country
- country-bred — brought up in the country
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- 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
- cumbrousness — The state or quality of being cumbrous.
- 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.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- 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.
- 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.
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- double ender — a double-ended vessel.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- 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-ended — having the two ends alike.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
- dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- ellenborough — Earl of, title of Edward Law. 1780–1871, British colonial administrator: governor general of India (1742–44)
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- 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.
- ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
- 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.
- 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).
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- 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
- front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- get a bun on — to become drunk