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12-letter words containing t, u, b, i

  • beautifuller — (obsolete) Comparative form of beautiful.
  • beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
  • benefit club — a club whose members enjoy certain benefits, such as reduced prices for travel or sporting events
  • bi-quarterly — occurring twice in each quarter of a year.
  • biarticulate — having two joints, as the antennae of certain insects.
  • biauriculate — having two auricles or earlike parts
  • bibb lettuce — a type of butterhead lettuce, formed in loose heads of very crisp, dark-green leaves
  • bibliotheque — a library.
  • bien entendu — certainly; to be sure
  • bifunctional — having two functions
  • bilinguality — the ability to speak two languages fluently.
  • binocularity — binocular characteristics
  • 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
  • biocomputing — the application of computing to problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics
  • bioturbation — the stirring of sediment by organisms
  • bird's mouth — a right-angled notch cut in the underside of a rafter for fitting over a longitudinal member, as a wall plate.
  • birket karun — a lake in N Egypt. 25 miles (40 km) long; about 5 miles (8 km) wide; 90 sq. mi. (233 sq. km).
  • birth trauma — an emotional shock caused by being born.
  • 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 of fluff — a girl or young woman
  • 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
  • blastulation — the process of blastula formation
  • blaue reiter — der Blaue Reiter. a group of German expressionist painters formed in Munich in 1911, including Kandinsky and Klee, who sought to express the spiritual side of man and nature, which they felt had been neglected by impressionism
  • 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 melilot — a European plant, Trigonella caerulea, of the legume family, having long-stalked clusters of blue and white flowers.
  • blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • blue thistle — blueweed (def 1).
  • blue vitriol — the fully hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
  • blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • 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.
  • bluefin tuna — the largest tuna (Thunnus thynnus): it has bright red flesh and is important as a game and food fish
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • boar-hunting — the practice of hunting wild boars
  • boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
  • boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
  • boisterously — rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained: the sound of boisterous laughter.
  • bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
  • bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bouleuterion — a council chamber in ancient Greece.
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