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12-letter words containing t, u, r, b, o

  • natural-born — native-born.
  • neoytterbium — ytterbium.
  • neutron bomb — a nuclear bomb designed to release radiation consisting mainly of neutrons, thus causing extensive loss of life but relatively little damage to buildings and property and only brief radioactive contamination.
  • nimbostratus — a cloud of a class characterized by a formless layer that is almost uniformly dark gray; a rain cloud of the layer type, of low altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2440 meters).
  • nonturbulent — Not turbulent.
  • northborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
  • northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
  • not-a-number — (mathematics)   (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
  • obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
  • objet trouve — found object.
  • obreptitious — having the characteristics of acquiring something by deceitful means
  • obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
  • obstreperous — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
  • obstructions — Plural form of obstruction.
  • orbicularity — The quality of being orbicular.
  • outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
  • over-trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
  • overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • perturbation — the act of perturbing.
  • peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
  • petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
  • post-puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
  • press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
  • probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
  • prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
  • protuberancy — protuberance.
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • redoublement — the act of redoubling
  • reset button — control that restores a default setting
  • rock bunting — a seed-eating songbird, Emberiza cia
  • roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
  • rubber boots — wellingtons: footwear worn in rain
  • ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
  • scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
  • south arabia — Protectorate of, a former protectorate of Great Britain in S Arabia, now part of the Republic of Yemen.
  • stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
  • stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
  • storage tube — an electron tube in which information is stored as charges for a predetermined time
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