12-letter words containing u, n, b, o, e
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- ellenborough — Earl of, title of Edward Law. 1780–1871, British colonial administrator: governor general of India (1742–44)
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- 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.
- 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).
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- illusionable — Liable to illusion.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incumbent on — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- indissoluble — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
- insolubilize — to make incapable of dissolving: a resin insolubilized by heat.
- insubjection — lack of subjection, or the state of being disobedient to an authority, such as a government
- insupposable — Incapable of being supposed; inconceivable.
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
- knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- last but one — next to last
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- lemon butter — a spread made of butter flavored with lemon
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
- moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.