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12-letter words containing ue

  • blue-thistle — Also called blue thistle. a bristly weed, Echium vulgare, of the borage family, having showy blue flowers, a native of Europe naturalized in the U.S.
  • bluefin tuna — the largest tuna (Thunnus thynnus): it has bright red flesh and is important as a game and food fish
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
  • brass plaque — a brass plate screwed to a wall or other structure and engraved with a name or other information, esp to commemorate an important event
  • breuer chair — a chair with a frame of continuous chrome tubing, no back legs, and cane seat and back
  • buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
  • buenos aires — the capital of Argentina, a major port and industrial city on the Río de la Plata estuary: became capital in 1880; university (1821). Pop: 13 349 000 (2005 est)
  • bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
  • bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
  • by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • cash squeeze — a shortage of money or funding
  • chaplinesque — characteristic of or resembling the comedy or filmmaking style of Charlie Chaplin.
  • chequerboard — Alternative spelling of checkerboard.
  • chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
  • cinematheque — a small intimate cinema
  • cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
  • cinque terre — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
  • circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
  • closet queen — a man who is homosexual but does not admit the fact
  • cluelessness — The state of being clueless.
  • come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
  • congruencies — congruence.
  • congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
  • conqueringly — in a conquering manner
  • consequenced — Simple past tense and past participle of consequence.
  • consequences — a game in which each player writes down a part of a story, folds over the paper, and passes it on to another player who continues the story. After several stages, the resulting (nonsensical) stories are read out
  • consequently — Consequently means as a result.
  • constituency — A constituency is an area for which someone is elected as the representative in a parliament or government.
  • constituents — serving to compose or make up a thing; component: the constituent parts of a motor.
  • coquettishly — (of a woman) characteristically flirtatious, especially in a teasing, lighthearted manner.
  • couette flow — the flow of a fluid between two surfaces that have tangential relative motion, as of a liquid between two coaxial cylinders that have different angular velocities.
  • counterargue — to argue against something
  • countervalue — An equivalent or equal, especially in military strategy.
  • croquet hoop — a hoop stuck into a croquet lawn
  • croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
  • cruelhearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
  • cruelty-free — (of a cosmetic or other product) developed without being tested on animals
  • cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
  • daguerrotype — Misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • delinquently — failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.
  • deliquescent — the act or process of deliquescing.
  • deliquescing — Present participle of deliquesce.
  • dengue-fever — an infectious, eruptive fever of warm climates, usually epidemic, characterized especially by severe pains in the joints and muscles.
  • dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
  • discontinued — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
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