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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
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