12-letter words containing s, u, b, g
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gas bacillus — any of several pathogenic bacilli, especially of the genus Clostridium, that produce gas in infected tissue.
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- gullibleness — Gullibility.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- 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.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
- kneeling bus — a bus that can lower its body or entrance door to facilitate boarding by the elderly or people with disabilities.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
- mutable sign — any of the four astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, that are grouped together because of their placement at the end of the seasons and characterized by the attribute of adaptability to circumstances.
- naughty bits — genitals
- nonambiguous — not ambiguous, clear
- numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- obtuse angle — an angle greater than 90° but less than 180°.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- phillipsburg — a city in NW New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
- rag business — the garment, clothing, or fashion industry.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- rubber goods — contraceptives; condoms
- scribbly gum — any species of the genus Eucalyptus with smooth white bark marked with random patterns made by wood-boring insects
- scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.