11-letter words containing a, b, o, u, n
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
- brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
- buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
- buenos dias — good day; good morning
- bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
- bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
- carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
- carburation — the process of mixing a hydrocarbon fuel with a correct amount of air to make an explosive mixture for an internal-combustion engine
- carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
- concludable — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
- concubinage — cohabitation without legal marriage
- concubinary — of, relating to, or living in concubinage.
- concubitant — a person obliged to marry another, esp a woman obliged to marry her husband's brother on her husband's death
- confabulate — to talk together; converse; chat
- confusables — Plural form of confusable.
- connubially — As in marriage.
- conquerable — Capable of being conquered or subdued.
- construable — that can be construed
- consumables — goods intended to be bought, used, and replaced, esp materials needed for computers and photocopiers
- contubernal — occupying the same tent
- conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
- counterbase — a double bass
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
- fantabulous — extremely fine or desirable; excellent; wonderful.
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- gauge boson — a boson that mediates the interaction between elementary particles. There are several types: photons for electromagnetic interactions, W and Z intermediate vector bosons for weak interactions, and gravitons for gravitational interactions
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- habituation — the act of habituating.
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- incubations — Plural form of incubation.
- journal box — a box or housing for a journal and its bearing.
- knock about — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.