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12-letter words containing u, b, e, r, m

  • moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • mount elbert — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range. Height: 4399 m (14 431 ft)
  • mount erebus — a volcano in Antarctica, on Ross Island: discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841 and named after his ship. Height: 3794 m (12 448 ft)
  • mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
  • mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
  • multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
  • munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
  • murderabilia — objects that are regarded as valuable because of their connection with murders or other notorious crimes
  • murfreesboro — a city in central Tennessee: battle of Stone River (or Murfreesboro) 1862.
  • murrumbidgee — a river in SE Australia, flowing W through New South Wales to the Murray River. 1050 miles (1690 km) long.
  • muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
  • muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
  • musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
  • muttonbirder — a person who hunts muttonbirds
  • neoytterbium — ytterbium.
  • neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
  • 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.
  • new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
  • nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
  • 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.
  • nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
  • number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • 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.
  • numbers pool — 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.
  • numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
  • nuxi problem — (data, architecture)   /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
  • oberammergau — a village in S Germany, SW of Munich: famous for the passion play performed there every ten years.
  • oboe d'amour — an oboe with a bulb-shaped bell that is pitched a minor third below the range of the conventional oboe and was much used in music of the Baroque period.
  • ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
  • order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
  • outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • phone number — of individual, business
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
  • prime number — a positive integer that is not divisible without remainder by any integer except itself and 1, with 1 often excluded: The integers 2, 3, 5, and 7 are prime numbers.
  • pulp chamber — the crown portion of the pulp cavity.
  • re-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • red mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
  • redoublement — the act of redoubling
  • reimbursable — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
  • rubber match — rubber2 (def 4)
  • rubber stamp — handheld printing tool
  • rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
  • rumble strip — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
  • schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
  • sea cucumber — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having a long, leathery body with tentacles around the anterior end.
  • semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
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