11-letter words containing b, u, e, n
- inturbidate — to make turbid
- inutterable — unutterable.
- isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
- kennel club — an association of dog breeders, usually concerned only with certain breeds of dogs.
- king's blue — cobalt blue.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- knuckleball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knucklebone — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- lambrequins — Plural form of lambrequin.
- landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
- launderable — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
- lenard tube — an early cathode-ray tube having at the end opposite the cathode a window of thin glass or metal allowing cathode rays (Lenard rays) to pass out into the atmosphere.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- lime burner — a person who makes lime by burning or calcining limestone, shells, etc.
- locust bean — carob.
- lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
- lubber line — a vertical line on the forward inner side of the bowl of a fixed compass, used as a reference mark indicating the heading of a vessel.
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lumberingly — With heavy, clumsy movements.
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- lutine bell — the salvaged bell from the wrecked British warship Lutine, hung in the insurance office of Lloyd's of London and traditionally rung before announcements of ships overdue or lost at sea.
- maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- maneuvrable — Alternative form of maneuverable.
- manipulable — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
- mare nubium — (Sea of Clouds) a dark plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 95,000 sq. mi. (245,000 sq. km).
- mass number — the integer nearest in value to the atomic weight of an atom and equal to the number of nucleons in the nucleus of the atom. Symbol: A.
- mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- minute book — a book in which the minutes of a meeting are recorded
- misnumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- mobile unit — a vehicle supplied with the basic equipment or materials necessary for a particular purpose, as for televising on location or being used as an x-ray or inoculation clinic.
- molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
- moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- mountbatten — Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79, British naval commander; great-grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II he was supreme allied commander in SE Asia (1943–46). He was the last viceroy of India (1947) and governor general (1947–48); killed by an IRA bomb
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- munsterberg — Hugo [hyoo-goh;; German hoo-goh] /ˈhyu goʊ;; German ˈhu goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1916, German psychologist and philosopher in the U.S.
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- mutableness — The quality of being mutable.
- nailbrushes — Plural form of nailbrush.
- native bush — indigenous forest
- necker cube — a line drawing showing the 12 edges of a transparent cube, so that it can be seen alternately facing in two different directions: an example of an ambiguous figure
- neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
- neural tube — a tube formed by the closure of ectodermal tissue in the early vertebrate embryo that later develops into the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and ganglia.
- neuroblasts — Plural form of neuroblast.
- neurofibril — a fibril of a nerve cell.
- neuroglobin — (protein) Any of a class of vertebrate globins involved in cellular oxygen homeostasis.
- newburyport — a city in NE Massachusetts.