12-letter words containing u, n, b, e, t
- buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
- buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- 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
- bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
- burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
- 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
- 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
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- contributers — Misspelling of contributors.
- contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- counterbluff — a bluff made in opposition to another bluff
- counterbrace — a rope on the leeward side of a ship, controlling the position of the fore-topsail
- country-bred — brought up in the country
- debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- encumberment — the act of being encumbered
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- frequentable — Accessible.
- front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.