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

  • paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
  • powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
  • produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
  • redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
  • rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
  • rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
  • 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.
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • 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
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
  • subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • superabound — to abound beyond something else.
  • thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
  • toolbuilder — Tool Builder Kit
  • trombiculid — (of a mite) belonging to the family Trombiculidae
  • troubadours — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
  • tuberculoid — resembling a tubercle.
  • tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture
  • unabrogated — not abrogated, revoked, or annulled
  • unbetrothed — engaged to be married: She is betrothed to that young lieutenant.
  • underbodice — a bodice worn under an outer bodice.
  • unforbidden — a past participle of forbid.
  • unorderable — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
  • upper bound — an element greater than or equal to all the elements in a given set: 3 and 4 are upper bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3. Compare bound3 (def 4), greatest lower bound, least upper bound, lower bound.
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