12-letter words containing u, n, b, o, s
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- higgs bugson — (humour) A hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal user reports. The Higgs Bugson is difficult to reproduce because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. To find one you will need a Large Hadron Debugger.
- 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.
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- illusionable — Liable to illusion.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- indissoluble — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- indissolubly — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- insalubrious — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- insolubility — incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.
- 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
- insubmission — Lack of submission; disobedience.
- insupposable — Incapable of being supposed; inconceivable.
- 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.
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- last but one — next to last
- libidinously — In a libidinous manner.
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- 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)
- mount robson — a mountain in SW Canada, in E British Columbia: the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. Height: 3954 m (12 972 ft)
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- musturbation — (psychology) The compulsive insistence that things ought to be a particular way.
- nebulosities — Plural form of nebulosity.
- nebulousness — The characteristic of being nebulous.
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- nimbostratus — a cloud of a class characterized by a formless layer that is almost uniformly dark gray; a rain cloud of the layer type, of low altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2440 meters).
- noctambulism — somnambulism.
- noctambulist — somnambulism.
- noctambulous — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
- nonambiguous — not ambiguous, clear
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- 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.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.