12-letter words containing y, e, b
- double bucky — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk --- ESR). See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
- double dummy — a variety of bridge for two players in which two hands are kept face down until the end of the bidding when both hands are exposed.
- 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 rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- dry-bone ore — a porous variety of smithsonite found near the surface of the earth.
- dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- dyer's-broom — woadwaxen.
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- ectosymbiont — (biology) A partner in a symbiotic relationship that remains on the surface of its host or occupies a body cavity.
- edward abbey — Edward, 1927–89, U.S. novelist and nature writer.
- electability — The capability of a candidate to be elected.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- enderby land — part of the coastal region of Antarctica, between Kemp Land and Queen Maud Land: the westernmost part of the Australian Antarctic Territory (claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty); discovered in 1831
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- enjoyability — The state or condition of being enjoyable.
- equitability — The quality of being equitable; equitableness.
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- ethylbenzene — A colorless, flammable liquid hydrocarbon, used in the manufacture of styrene.
- every bit as — equally, just as
- evolvability — (biology) The ability of a particular organism to evolve.
- excitability — (uncountable) The state of being excitable.
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- exprobratory — acting as a reproach
- family bible — a large Bible usually having pages at the front for recording the marriages, births, and deaths in a family.
- ferry bridge — transporter bridge.
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- five by five — short and fat.
- five-by-five — short and fat.
- flat battery — power cell that has run down
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- fuzzy subset — In fuzzy logic, a fuzzy subset F of a set S is defined by a "membership function" which gives the degree of membership of each element of S belonging to F.
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- gene library — a collection of gene clones that represents the genetic material of an organism: used in genetic engineering
- generability — capable of being generated or produced.
- georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
- geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.