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11-letter words containing b, o, r, n, u

  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • buffer zone — A buffer zone is an area created to separate opposing forces or groups which belongs to neither of them.
  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • buon giorno — good day; hello
  • burne-jones — Sir Edward. 1833–98, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer of stained-glass windows and tapestries
  • burnet rose — a very prickly Eurasian rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia, with white flowers and purplish-black fruits
  • burning out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
  • burrowstown — a burgh town
  • bus network — (networking)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
  • button tree — any of a genus (Conocarpus) of dicotyledonous West Indian trees with buttonlike fruit
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
  • carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
  • carburation — the process of mixing a hydrocarbon fuel with a correct amount of air to make an explosive mixture for an internal-combustion engine
  • carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
  • clenbuterol — a drug prescribed for breathing disorders
  • code number — a number used to identify something
  • colourblind — Alternative form of colour blind.
  • concubinary — of, relating to, or living in concubinage.
  • conquerable — Capable of being conquered or subdued.
  • construable — that can be construed
  • contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • contributer — Misspelling of contributor.
  • contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
  • contributor — You can use contributor to refer to one of the causes of an event or situation, especially if that event or situation is an unpleasant one.
  • control bus — (architecture)   In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
  • contubernal — occupying the same tent
  • conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
  • cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
  • counterbase — a double bass
  • counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
  • counterblow — a retaliatory blow
  • counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
  • counterbore — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
  • counterbuff — a retaliatory blow
  • deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
  • do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
  • double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
  • doxorubicin — a cytotoxic antibiotic, C 27 H 29 NO 11 , derived from a variety of the bacterium Streptomyces peucetius and used in the treatment of sarcoma, malignant lymphoma, acute leukemia, and other cancers.
  • farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
  • fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
  • fibrousness — The state or quality of being fibrous.
  • floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
  • four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
  • furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
  • glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
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