9-letter words containing b, l, u, n
- lunch box — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- lung book — book lung.
- lynchburg — a city in central Virginia.
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- mandibula — (anatomy) mandible.
- manubrial — Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
- manurable — Able, or suitable, to be manured or cultivated on.
- melbourne — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
- mountable — Able to be mounted.
- multiband — Having or employing multiple bands, especially frequency bands.
- multibank — of or involving more than one bank
- mumblings — Plural form of mumbling.
- munchable — an item of food that can be munched; a snack
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- navy blue — a dark blue.
- nebulated — having dim or indistinct markings, as a bird or other animal.
- nebuliser — Alternative spelling of nebulizer.
- nebulized — Simple past tense and past participle of nebulize.
- nebulizer — to reduce to fine spray; atomize.
- nebulizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nebulize.
- nebulosus — (of a cloud) having indistinct details.
- new build — the activity of building new houses and other buildings
- nightclub — Also, night club. an establishment for evening entertainment, generally open until the early morning, that serves liquor and usually food and offers patrons music, comedy acts, a floor show, or dancing; nightspot.
- nile blue — pale greenish blue.
- nonlabour — not relating to or concerned with work
- nonpublic — Not open or available to the public.
- nonusable — not usable; unusable
- numbingly — causing numbness or insensibility; stupefying: the numbing effects of grief; a story repeated with numbing regularity.
- numbskull — a dull-witted or stupid person; dolt.
- numerable — capable of being counted, totaled, or numbered.
- oldenburg — Claes (Thure) [klous too r-uh] /klaʊs ˈtʊər ə/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. sculptor, born in Sweden.
- ovalbumin — the principal protein of egg white.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- plant bug — any of numerous, often brightly colored hemipterous insects of the family Miridae that feed on the juices of plants.
- plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
- plumbness — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- pony club — an international youth organization that educates young people about horses and horse riding
- prenubile — of the period from birth to puberty
- pub lunch — a lunch in a pub
- punchball — a form of playground or street baseball in which a rubber ball is batted with the fist.
- punchbowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- quibbling — characterized by or consisting of quibbles; carping; niggling: quibbling debates.
- roundball — basketball
- rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rumble on — If you say that something such as an argument rumbles on, you mean that it continues for a long time after it should have been settled.
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- shelburne — William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, William Petty Fizmaurice Lansdowne.
- shrubland — land covered by shrubs
- slow burn — a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst: I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
- stingbull — Trachinus draco, a species of fish with venomous spines on their dorsal fins that are capable of wounding humans