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11-letter words containing b, u, i

  • rugby shirt — a knitted pullover sport shirt usually in bold horizontal stripes and having a white collar and neckline placket, styled after the shirts traditionally worn by the members of Rugby teams.
  • rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • rumbustical — rumbustious
  • rumbustious — rambunctious.
  • runnability — to move with haste; act quickly: Run upstairs and get the iodine.
  • rus in urbe — the country in the town
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • 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.
  • scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
  • scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
  • scuba diver — sb who dives underwater
  • sea biscuit — ship biscuit; hardtack.
  • semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
  • service bus — a public bus with a regular route
  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shrubberied — having a shrubbery
  • sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
  • social club — A social club is a club where members go in order to meet each other and enjoy leisure activities.
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
  • spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
  • spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
  • static tube — a tube for measuring the static pressure of a fluid in motion, so placed in the fluid as not to be affected by the pressure changes caused by the motion of the fluid.
  • stick-built — built piece-by-piece at the construction site, as opposed to factory-built.
  • stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
  • strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • sub-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
  • sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
  • sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
  • sub-fascial — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
  • sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
  • sub-society — an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
  • sub-species — A sub-species of a plant or animal is one of the types that a particular species is divided into.
  • subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
  • subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
  • subaerially — in a subaerial manner
  • suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
  • 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.
  • subaxillary — situated or placed beneath an axil.
  • subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subclassify — to arrange in subclasses.
  • subclinical — pertaining to an early stage of a disease; having no noticeable clinical symptoms.
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