12-letter words containing b, u, i, l
- circumboreal — of or having to do with plants and animals inhabiting boreal regions of North America and Eurasia
- cirl bunting — a European passerine bird Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family Emberizidae
- cloudberries — Plural form of cloudberry.
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- clubbability — The quality of being clubbable.
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
- combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- connubialism — the state of being married
- connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
- coulrophobia — an abnormal fear of clowns.
- countability — the fact of being countable
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- 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
- cuir-bouilli — a type of leather hardened by soaking in wax, used for armour before the 14th century
- cultivatable — Cultivable.
- 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.
- customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
- customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
- debrouillard — (one who is) skilled or resourceful at handling any difficulty
- debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
- destructible — capable of being or liable to be destroyed
- desublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- devil's club — a spiny shrub, Oplopanax horridus, of northwestern North America, having broad palmate leaves, greenish flowers, and clusters of bright red berries.
- dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- double helix — the spiral arrangement of the two complementary strands of DNA.
- double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
- double piece — a piece of plate armor for reinforcing or replacing a piece ordinarily used in a suit.
- double-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the active medication, treatment, etc., and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias from the test results.
- double-click — to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file: Double-click on the desktop icon.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
- double-quick — very quick or rapid.
- double-sided — double-faced (defs 2, 3).
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
- duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.