11-letter words containing b, o, u, n
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- outbuilding — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- outnumbered — to exceed in number.
- overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
- overburthen — to overburden
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
- plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
- pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
- port number — port
- pouncet box — a small perfume box with a perforated lid.
- pouring box — tundish (def 2).
- powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- pulley bone — wishbone (def 1).
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
- retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
- ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
- round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
- round table — conference, meeting
- round-robin — a sequence or series.
- 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.
- rowing club — rowboat association
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- 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.
- scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
- shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- stop button — (on a DVD player, cassette recorder, etc) the off switch
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- sub-economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.