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

  • ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
  • ring nebula — a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra that has a ringlike appearance surrounding its central star.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • 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.
  • rubber band — a narrow, circular or oblong band of rubber, used for holding things together, as papers or a box and its lid.
  • rubber ring — an air-filled ring made of rubber, used as a swimming aid
  • rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
  • runner bean — string bean (defs 1, 2).
  • rus in urbe — the country in the town
  • saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
  • sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
  • scrub nurse — a nurse specially trained to assist surgeons in the operating room and serving as part of the surgically clean medical team handling instruments during an operation.
  • sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
  • slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
  • 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.
  • spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
  • spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • sub-economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
  • sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
  • sub-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
  • sub-segment — a part or division of a segment.
  • subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
  • subaffluent — between poor and affluent
  • suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
  • subbasement — a basement or one of a series of basements below the main basement of a building.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
  • subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
  • subfreezing — below the freezing point.
  • subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
  • subinfluent — an organism that has a lesser effect than an influent on the ecological processes within a community.
  • subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
  • subitaneous — sudden
  • subjunctive — (in English and certain other languages) noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjective, doubtful, hypothetical, or grammatically subordinate statements or questions, as the mood of be in if this be treason. Compare imperative (def 3), indicative (def 2).
  • sublanguage — a subvariety of language used in a particular field or by a particular social group and characterized especially by distinctive vocabulary.
  • sublicensee — a person, company, etc., to whom a sublicense is granted.
  • sublimeness — the state or quality of being sublime
  • submergence — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
  • subminister — to supply
  • submissness — submissiveness
  • subnotebook — a laptop computer smaller and lighter than a notebook, typically weighing less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg).
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
  • subsegments — a part or division of a segment.
  • subsensible — unable to be detected by the senses
  • subsentence — a part of a sentence which can stand by itself as a sentence
  • subsequence — a sequence obtained from a given sequence by selecting terms from it and placing them in the order in which they occur in it.
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