11-letter words containing b, e, m, u, d
- dumbed down — (jargon) Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
- dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- 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.
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- immune body — antibody
- lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
- maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- masturbated — Simple past tense and past participle of masturbate.
- misnumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- 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:
- multibladed — having multiple blades
- 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".
- mumbledypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- numbskulled — (informal) stupid.
- ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
- outnumbered — to exceed in number.
- prenumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
- subdelirium — a mild delirium with lucid intervals.
- subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
- subemployed — of or relating to workers affected by subemployment
- thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- thumb index — tabs on edge of a book's pages
- thumb-index — to provide (a book) with a thumb index.
- 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.
- tumble down — collapse, fall
- tumble-down — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- umbilicated — having an umbilicus
- unamendable — to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure: Congress may amend the proposed tax bill.
- unassembled — noting an artificial gem formed of two or more parts, as a doublet or triplet, at least one of which is a true gemstone.
- unblemished — to destroy or diminish the perfection of: The book is blemished by those long, ineffective descriptions.
- unblossomed — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
- unsubmerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- unsubmitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- waved umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Menophra abruptaria, that is cryptically marked to merge with tree bark