12-letter words containing a, b, u, r
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
- decarburized — Simple past tense and past participle of decarburize.
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- drawbar pull — the force, measured in pounds, available to a locomotive for pulling rolling stock after overcoming its own tractive resistance.
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- dutch harbor — a U.S. naval base on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
- equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
- equiprobable — (of two or more things ) equally likely to occur; having equal probability.
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- 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.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- frame buffer — (hardware) Part of a video system in which an image is stored, pixel by pixel and which is used to refresh a raster image. The term "video memory" suggests a fairly static display whereas a frame buffer holds one frame from a sequence of frames forming a moving image. Frame buffers are found in frame grabbers and time base correction systems, for example.
- frequentable — Accessible.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.