0%

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

  • heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
  • inner-tubing — tubing (def 4).
  • inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
  • instructible — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
  • interborough — between boroughs.
  • interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
  • intertubular — Between tubes or tubules.
  • leatherbound — Bound in leather.
  • lemon butter — a spread made of butter flavored with lemon
  • mount elbert — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range. Height: 4399 m (14 431 ft)
  • mount erebus — a volcano in Antarctica, on Ross Island: discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 and named after his ship. Height: 3794 m (12 448 ft)
  • musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
  • muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
  • neoytterbium — ytterbium.
  • neutron bomb — a nuclear bomb designed to release radiation consisting mainly of neutrons, thus causing extensive loss of life but relatively little damage to buildings and property and only brief radioactive contamination.
  • nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
  • nonturbulent — Not turbulent.
  • not-a-number — (mathematics)   (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
  • obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
  • outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
  • overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • perturbation — the act of perturbing.
  • petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • prepubescent — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
  • press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
  • protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
  • protuberancy — protuberance.
  • quarter bend — a 90° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
  • redoublement — the act of redoubling
  • reed bunting — an Old World bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, inhabiting marshy areas.
  • reset button — control that restores a default setting
  • rubber plant — a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
  • saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
  • saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
  • salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
  • stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
  • stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
  • stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
  • strobe tuner — an electronic instrument tuner that uses stroboscopic light
  • stubbornness — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
  • sub-attorney — a lawyer; attorney-at-law.
  • subalternant — a universal in relation to a subaltern
  • subalternate — subordinate.
  • subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?