11-letter words containing b, i, g, u, n
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- outbuilding — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- pouring box — tundish (def 2).
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
- ring nebula — a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra that has a ringlike appearance surrounding its central star.
- rowing club — rowboat association
- rubber ring — an air-filled ring made of rubber, used as a swimming aid
- rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- subgingival — being or occurring under the gums; especially, being or occurring in the crevice between the gum margin and the neck or root of a tooth.
- subimaginal — of or relating to subimago
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- submarginal — Biology. near the margin.
- submarining — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subscribing — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- sugar basin — sugar bowl.
- tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
- thingumabob — thingamajig.
- tubthumping — to promote something or express opinions vociferously.
- tuning knob — a knob or dial on a radio used to tune into different stations
- unabatingly — to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish: to abate a tax; to abate one's enthusiasm.
- unambiguous — not ambiguous, or unclear; distinct; unequivocal: The object of the experiment was to reach an unambiguous conclusion about climate change.
- unbefitting — not befitting to a person; not appropriate or suitable
- unbegetting — (esp referring to God) not begetting or generating a like being
- unbeginning — lacking a beginning
- unbelieving — not believing; skeptical.
- unbelonging — something that belongs.
- unbenighted — not overtaken by darkness or night
- unbenignant — not benign; unkind; ungracious
- unbeseeming — to be fit for or worthy of; become: conduct that beseems a gentleman.
- unblenching — not blenching or turning aside; unflinching
- unbreathing — not breathing; holding the breath
- unbudgingly — in an unbudging or unmoving fashion; fixedly
- underbridge — a bridge underneath a railway or road
- unfatigable — susceptible to fatigue.
- unignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- unignorably — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- unlabouring — not labouring
- unmitigable — to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
- unmitigably — in an unmitigable manner
- unnavigable — deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel.