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12-letter words containing u, n, b, o, l

  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • button quail — any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)
  • buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • cloud banner — banner cloud.
  • coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
  • colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
  • communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
  • communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • compoundable — That can be compounded.
  • confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
  • confabulator — to converse informally; chat.
  • 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
  • connubialism — the state of being married
  • connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
  • constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
  • countability — the fact of being countable
  • 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
  • country club — A country club is a club in the country where you can play sports and attend social events.
  • cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
  • cumulonimbus — Cumulonimbus is a type of cloud, similar to cumulus, that extends to a great height and is associated with thunderstorms.
  • dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
  • discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
  • double ender — a double-ended vessel.
  • 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-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the active medication, treatment, etc., and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias from the test results.
  • double-ended — having the two ends alike.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • doubleganger — doppelgänger.
  • doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
  • 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.
  • fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
  • 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).
  • funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
  • functionable — functional (def 3).
  • 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
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