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11-letter words containing a, b, u, r, s

  • orbicularis — a muscle surrounding an opening
  • outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
  • parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
  • parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • pastry tube — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
  • persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
  • persuasible — capable of being persuaded; open to or yielding to persuasion.
  • peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
  • presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
  • purchasable — capable of being bought.
  • quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
  • quatre bras — a village in central Belgium, near Brussels: battle preliminary to the battle of Waterloo fought here 1815.
  • rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.
  • 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.
  • raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
  • rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
  • res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
  • reusability — reuse
  • rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
  • rhesus baby — a baby suffering from haemolytic disease at birth as its red blood cells (which are Rh positive) have been attacked in the womb by antibodies from its Rh negative mother
  • rubbish bag — a plastic bag for the disposal of household rubbish
  • rumble seat — Also called, British, dickey. a seat recessed into the back of a coupe or roadster, covered by a hinged lid that opens to form the back of the seat when in use.
  • rumbustical — rumbustious
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
  • saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
  • sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
  • sauce bercy — Bercy.
  • sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
  • scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
  • scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
  • scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
  • scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
  • scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
  • sea blubber — a large jellyfish, Cyanea capillata.
  • shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
  • shea butter — a solid, greenish, yellowish, or whitish fat derived from the seeds of the shea tree, used for food and in the manufacture of soaps and candles.
  • slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
  • soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
  • somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
  • spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
  • staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
  • sub-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
  • sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • sub-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
  • sub-saharan — of, relating to, or in Africa south of the Sahara Desert: a sub-Saharan country; sub-Saharan peoples.
  • sub-surface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
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