11-letter words containing a, b, d, u
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- moorbuzzard — a bird of prey known as the marsh harrier, Circus Aeruginosus
- multibladed — having multiple blades
- non-audible — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
- order about — to bully or domineer
- ouija board — board used by spiritualists
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- quick bread — bread, muffins, etc., made with a leavening agent, as baking powder or soda, that permits immediate baking.
- rambus dram — (storage) (RDRAM) A high bandwidth DRAM, designed by Rambus, Inc. of Mountain View, CA. RDRAM is used mainly for video accelerators, and also in the Ultra 64 from Nintendo. It offers sustained transfer rates of around 1000 Mbps, compared to 200 Mbps for ordinary DRAM. Although it cannot be used as a direct replacement for existing memory, it is likely that it will replace DRAM and SDRAM as the main memory system in personal computers as the bus speeds required by these machines increase. SDRAM can operate up to around 100MHz, but RDRAM has been demonstrated by the manufacturers running at 600MHz. The memory is also only 8 or 9 bits wide, so the bandwidth would increase enormously if it were used in parallel to give 32 or 64-bit memory.
- rebuildable — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
- round table — conference, meeting
- round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
- rubber band — a narrow, circular or oblong band of rubber, used for holding things together, as papers or a box and its lid.
- scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
- subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
- subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
- subjudicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- substandard — below standard or less than adequate: substandard housing conditions.
- sunday baby — an illegitimate child.
- sunday best — Sunday clothes.
- superabound — to abound beyond something else.
- surtarbrand — deposits of brown coal embedded in Iceland lava
- tabularised — to tabulate.
- tabularized — to tabulate.
- thunder bay — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
- tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.