11-letter words containing b, e, m, o, u
- goose bumps — If you get goose bumps, the hairs on your skin stand up so that it is covered with tiny bumps. You get goose bumps when you are cold, frightened, or excited.
- 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.
- gum benzoin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- immune body — antibody
- lumber room — a room in a house used for storing odds-and-ends, especially old furniture.
- mare boreum — (Northern Sea) an area near the north pole of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- marker buoy — a buoy used to distinguish or mark something
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- microbubble — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
- minute book — a book in which the minutes of a meeting are recorded
- mobile unit — a vehicle supplied with the basic equipment or materials necessary for a particular purpose, as for televising on location or being used as an x-ray or inoculation clinic.
- mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
- molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
- moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
- mossbluiter — the bittern
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- mountbatten — Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79, British naval commander; great-grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II he was supreme allied commander in SE Asia (1943–46). He was the last viceroy of India (1947) and governor general (1947–48); killed by an IRA bomb
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- mouse elbow — (jargon, medical) A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP. Similarly, "mouse shoulder". GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he taught himself to be ambimoustrous.
- multilobate — having or comprised of several lobes
- mumble mode — (jargon) The mode a program, piece of hardware, or other system is said to be in when it is still running and perhaps reacting to input and/or occasionally producing output (especially if it shouldn't), but in a way that appears wildly inappropriate to the task it is supposed to perform. Compare "off the trolley" and "deep space".
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- number work — simple arithmetic and similar mathematical procedures as used and studied at primary level
- obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
- ombrogenous — (of plants) able to flourish in wet conditions
- ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
- outnumbered — to exceed in number.
- port number — port
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- procerebrum — (in certain invertebrates) the front part of the central nervous system
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- rubber room — Informal. a room padded with foam rubber for the confinement of a violent mentally ill person.
- slumbersome — tired; sleepy
- sub-economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
- subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
- subemployed — of or relating to workers affected by subemployment
- submolecule — a part of a molecule
- suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
- superbomber — an aircraft used for dropping superbombs
- 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.
- trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
- troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
- tuberculoma — a tumour or other mass that grows from a tuberculous lesion or caused by the tubercle bacillus