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12-letter words containing t, s, u

  • bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
  • barbados nut — an ornamental, tropical American tree, Jatropha curcas, of the spurge family, having ivylike leaves, small, yellow or greenish-yellow flowers, and olive-shaped fruit yielding a purgative, poisonous oil.
  • barbecue set — a set of tools used for barbecuing
  • barbiturates — any of a group of barbituric acid derivatives, used in medicine as sedatives and hypnotics.
  • bardolatrous — relating to or characterized by bardolatry
  • barquisimeto — a city in NW Venezuela. Pop: 1 009 000 (2005 est)
  • barratrously — In a barratrous manner.
  • basque shirt — a knitted pullover shirt having a crew neck, long or short sleeves, and a pattern of horizontal stripes.
  • basset hound — A basset hound is a dog with short strong legs, a long body, and long ears. It is kept as a pet or used for hunting.
  • bastel house — (on the Anglo-Scottish border) a partly fortified house, usually with a vaulted ground floor.
  • bathing suit — A bathing suit is a piece of clothing which people wear when they go swimming.
  • bathophilous — (of an organism) living in very deep water
  • bean sprouts — the sprouts of newly germinated mung beans, eaten as a vegetable, esp in Chinese dishes
  • beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
  • beaufort sea — part of the Arctic Ocean off the N coast of North America
  • beautifulest — (dated) Most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
  • beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
  • beauty sleep — sleep, esp sleep before midnight
  • beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
  • belly-buster — belly flop.
  • bio-security — the precautions taken to protect against the spread of lethal or harmful organisms and diseases
  • bioacoustics — the study of animals' use of sound
  • bird's mouth — a right-angled notch cut in the underside of a rafter for fitting over a longitudinal member, as a wall plate.
  • biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
  • bismuthinite — a grey mineral consisting of bismuth sulphide in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with tin, copper, silver, lead, etc, and is a source of bismuth. Formula: Bi2S3
  • bit stuffing — (protocol)   A protocol which guarantees the receiver of synchronous data can recover the sender's clock. When the data stream sent contains a large number of adjacent bits which cause no transition of the signal, the receiver cannot adjust its clock to maintain proper synchronised reception. To eliminate the possibility of such a pathological case, when a preset number of transitionless bits have been transmitted, a bit which does cause a transition is "stuffed" (transmitted) by the sender. The receiver follows the same protocol and removes the stuffed bit after the specified number of transitionless bits, but can use the stuffed bit to recover the sender's clock. The advantage of bit stuffing is that only a bit (not a byte) is inserted in the data stream, and that only when the content of the data stream fails to provide a timing signal to the receiver. Thus very nearly 100% of the bits transported are useful data. In contrast, asynchronous transmission of data "throws away" a start bit and one or more stop bits for each data byte sent.
  • biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
  • black locust — Also called false acacia, yellow locust. a North American tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and clusters of fragrant white flowers.
  • blastulation — the process of blastula formation
  • blind summit — a point on a road where a vehicle approaching the top of a hill or incline cannot see vehicles approaching up the other side of the hill
  • blister rust — a disease of certain pines caused by rust fungi of the genus Cronartium, causing swellings on the bark from which orange masses of spores are released
  • blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • blue helmets — armed troops under the sponsorship of the United Nations, used for peacekeeping
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • blue thistle — blueweed (def 1).
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • blue-thistle — Also called blue thistle. a bristly weed, Echium vulgare, of the borage family, having showy blue flowers, a native of Europe naturalized in the U.S.
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
  • boom-or-bust — boom-and-bust.
  • booster pump — A booster pump is a pump which is used where pressure is low and needs to be increased.
  • bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
  • bottom house — the open space beneath a house built upon high pillars
  • bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
  • brains trust — a group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
  • bridal suite — a room or set of rooms in a hotel for newly married couples
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