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

  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • buon giorno — good day; hello
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • 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.
  • bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • bushhogging — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
  • butenedioic — designating a type of acid
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • button down — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
  • button lift — a kind of ski lift for one person consisting of a moving cable to which is attached a pole with a circular plate at the bottom, which a skier places between his or her legs to be carried up the hill
  • 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
  • button-down — A button-down shirt or a shirt with a button-down collar has a button under each end of the collar which you can fasten.
  • button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
  • buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • buttonmould — the small core of plastic, wood, or metal that is the base for buttons covered with fabric, leather, etc
  • 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.
  • combustions — Plural form of combustion.
  • concludable — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
  • concubinage — cohabitation without legal marriage
  • concubinary — of, relating to, or living in concubinage.
  • concubitant — a person obliged to marry another, esp a woman obliged to marry her husband's brother on her husband's death
  • conductible — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
  • confabulate — to talk together; converse; chat
  • confusables — Plural form of confusable.
  • connubially — As in marriage.
  • conquerable — Capable of being conquered or subdued.
  • construable — that can be construed
  • consumables — goods intended to be bought, used, and replaced, esp materials needed for computers and photocopiers
  • 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.
  • convulsible — capable of becoming intensely agitated
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