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

  • benefit club — a club whose members enjoy certain benefits, such as reduced prices for travel or sporting events
  • bien entendu — certainly; to be sure
  • bifunctional — having two functions
  • bilinguality — the ability to speak two languages fluently.
  • binocularity — binocular characteristics
  • biocomputing — the application of computing to problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics
  • bioturbation — the stirring of sediment by organisms
  • birket karun — a lake in N Egypt. 25 miles (40 km) long; about 5 miles (8 km) wide; 90 sq. mi. (233 sq. km).
  • 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
  • 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
  • blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • 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 whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • box junction — (in Britain) a road junction having yellow cross-hatching painted on the road surface. Vehicles may only enter the hatched area when their exit is clear
  • brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
  • brains trust — a group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
  • bull-baiting — the setting of dogs on a chained or confined bull, formerly a popular pastime in England
  • bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
  • bullet train — a passenger train that travels at very high speed
  • bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
  • bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
  • bunny rabbit — rabbit
  • burning ghat — a platform at the top of a riverside ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.
  • burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
  • 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
  • butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
  • button quail — any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)
  • buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • cafe curtain — a short curtain suspended directly downward from a series of rings sliding on a horizontal rod so as to cover the lower and sometimes upper portions of a window.
  • calculations — Plural form of calculation.
  • calreticulin — (protein) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.
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