12-letter words containing u, b, a, n, g
- 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
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- gum-benjamin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- inexpugnable — incapable of being taken by force; impregnable; unconquerable.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- laguna beach — a town in S California.
- lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
- mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
- masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- mutable sign — any of the four astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, that are grouped together because of their placement at the end of the seasons and characterized by the attribute of adaptability to circumstances.
- naughty bits — genitals
- non-arguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.
- nonambiguous — not ambiguous, clear
- numbers game — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- obtuse angle — an angle greater than 90° but less than 180°.
- oda nobunaga — 1534–82, Japanese general and feudal leader, who unified much of Japan under his control: assassinated
- outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
- panic buying — shopping to stockpile for emergency
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
- pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.