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12-letter words containing t, u, n, g

  • beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
  • bilinguality — the ability to speak two languages fluently.
  • biocomputing — the application of computing to problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics
  • 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 tongue — canine pellagra.
  • blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • 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.
  • bonnet rouge — a red cap worn by ardent supporters of the French Revolution
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
  • bouncing bet — a perennial soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) with clusters of pinkish flowers
  • buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
  • bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
  • bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
  • burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
  • burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • bushfighting — fighting in the bush
  • butter icing — a mixture of butter and icing sugar used for filling or topping cakes
  • buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • calumniating — Present participle of calumniate.
  • capitulating — Present participle of capitulate.
  • caricaturing — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
  • caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
  • centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
  • centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
  • chandragupta — Greek name Sandracottos. died ?297 bc, ruler of N India, who founded the Maurya dynasty (325) and defeated Seleucus (?305)
  • chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
  • chinhuangtao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
  • chota nagpur — a plateau in E India, mainly in Jharkhand state since 2000: forested, with rich mineral resources and much heavy industry; produces chiefly lac (world's leading supplier), coal (half India's total output), and mica
  • chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
  • cirl bunting — a European passerine bird Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family Emberizidae
  • citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
  • clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
  • compurgation — (formerly) a method of trial whereby a defendant might be acquitted if a sufficient number of persons swore to his innocence
  • configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
  • configurator — an item of software that enables or assists in the configuration of a product
  • conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
  • conglutinant — (of the edges of a wound or fracture) promoting union; adhesive
  • conglutinate — to cause (the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during the process of healing or (of the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during this process
  • congratulant — expressing congratulation
  • congratulate — If you congratulate someone, you say something to show you are pleased that something nice has happened to them.
  • congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
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