11-letter words containing b, o, u, s, t
- obstructing — Present participle of obstruct.
- obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- obstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- obtrusively — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- odious debt — sovereign debt incurred through activities which do not serve the best interests of the nation, esp when incurred by a despotic, tyrannical, or otherwise unjust and oppresive regime. Such debts are typically considered invalid and written off after the regime is deposed
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
- postpuberty — the period after puberty
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
- rumbustious — rambunctious.
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- scottsbluff — a city in W Nebraska, on the North Platte River.
- slop bucket — slop pail.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- spouted bed — A spouted bed is a bed in which the particles are quite big, and contact only happens in an upward movement of fluid in the middle of the bed.
- statcoulomb — the electrostatic unit of a quantity of electricity, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 coulomb and equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one statampere.
- stop button — (on a DVD player, cassette recorder, etc) the off switch
- 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-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- sub-project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- sub-society — an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
- 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.
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
- subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
- subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
- subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subitaneous — sudden
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- subjunction — an act of subjoining.
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- sublittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom between the littoral and bathyal zones, from the low water line to the edge of the continental shelf, or to a depth of approximately 660 feet (200 meters).
- subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
- submunition — a weapon forming part of a larger warhead and released from it at a target
- subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- subnotebook — a laptop computer smaller and lighter than a notebook, typically weighing less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg).
- suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.