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11-letter words containing b, n, u, t, e

  • port number — port
  • pouncet box — a small perfume box with a perforated lid.
  • protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
  • publishment — publication.
  • pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
  • raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
  • retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
  • return bend — a 180° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
  • rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
  • spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • sub-segment — a part or division of a segment.
  • subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
  • subaffluent — between poor and affluent
  • subbasement — a basement or one of a series of basements below the main basement of a building.
  • subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
  • subinfluent — an organism that has a lesser effect than an influent on the ecological processes within a community.
  • subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
  • subitaneous — sudden
  • subjunctive — (in English and certain other languages) noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjective, doubtful, hypothetical, or grammatically subordinate statements or questions, as the mood of be in if this be treason. Compare imperative (def 3), indicative (def 2).
  • subminister — to supply
  • subnotebook — a laptop computer smaller and lighter than a notebook, typically weighing less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg).
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subsegments — a part or division of a segment.
  • subsentence — a part of a sentence which can stand by itself as a sentence
  • subservient — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • subsistence — the state or fact of subsisting.
  • substance p — a small peptide released upon stimulation in the nervous system and involved in regulation of the pain threshold.
  • substantive — a noun.
  • substituent — Chemistry. an atom or atomic group that takes the place of another atom or group present in the molecule of the original compound.
  • subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
  • subungulate — any member of the superorder of animal termed Subungulata (also called Paenungulata), containing the elephant, sea cow and hyrax, as well as two extinct orders
  • suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
  • sun bittern — a graceful South American wading bird, Eurypyga helias, related to the cranes and rails, having variegated plumage.
  • sunday best — Sunday clothes.
  • sustainable — capable of being supported or upheld, as by having its weight borne from below.
  • tamburlaine — Tamerlane.
  • telukbetung — a port on SE Sumatra, in Indonesia.
  • terbrugghen — Hendrik. 1588–1629, Dutch painter of the Utrecht school, who specialized in religious subjects, for example the Incredulity of St Thomas and the Calling of St Matthew
  • terbutaline — a selective beta-adrenergic receptor agonist substance, C 12 H 19 NO 3 , used in the treatment of asthma.
  • the bitumen — any road with a bitumen surface
  • the numbers — an illegal lottery in which small bets are placed on the order of certain numbers, usually the last three, in some tabulation of game scores or financial reports published in the daily newspapers
  • thumb index — tabs on edge of a book's pages
  • thumb-index — to provide (a book) with a thumb index.
  • thunder bay — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
  • thunderbird — (in the mythology of some North American Indians) a huge, eaglelike bird capable of producing thunder, lightning, and rain.
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