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12-letter words containing bu

  • cheeseburger — A cheeseburger is a flat round piece of cooked meat called a burger with a slice of cheese on top, served in a bread roll.
  • child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
  • chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
  • chinese burn — a minor torture inflicted by twisting the skin of a person's wrist or arm in two different directions simultaneously
  • chlorambucil — an alkylating drug derived from nitrogen mustard, administered orally in the treatment of leukaemia and other malignant diseases. Formula: C14H19Cl2NO2
  • cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
  • cirl bunting — a European passerine bird Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family Emberizidae
  • coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
  • coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
  • cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
  • cocoa butter — a yellowish-white waxy solid that is obtained from cocoa beans and used for confectionery, soap, etc
  • columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
  • combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
  • computer bus — bus
  • confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
  • confabulator — to converse informally; chat.
  • conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
  • constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
  • contributary — contributory
  • contributers — Misspelling of contributors.
  • contributing — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • contribution — If you make a contribution to something, you do something to help make it successful or to produce it.
  • contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • contributors — Plural form of contributor.
  • contributory — A contributory factor of a problem or accident is one of the things which caused it to exist or happen.
  • corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)
  • courtesy bus — a free bus
  • crime-buster — a law officer who specializes in fighting large-scale organized crime
  • 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.
  • custom-build — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
  • custom-built — If something is custom-built, it is built according to someone's special requirements.
  • dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
  • deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
  • debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
  • decarburized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarburize.
  • disburdening — Present participle of disburden.
  • disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
  • disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
  • distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
  • distributees — Plural form of distributee.
  • distributers — a person or thing that distributes.
  • distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
  • distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
  • distributism — a socioeconomic theory and system advocating widespread ownership of private property and the means of production: based on late 19th-century Catholic teachings on economic and social justice.
  • distributive — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • distributors — Plural form of distributor.
  • donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
  • double album — a commercial recording sold on two CDs or LPs
  • 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.
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