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11-letter words containing b, u, i

  • subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
  • subcritical — Physics. pertaining to a state, value, or quantity that is less than critical, especially to a mass of radioactive material.
  • subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
  • subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
  • subdelirium — a mild delirium with lucid intervals.
  • subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
  • subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
  • subdistrict — a division of a district.
  • subdivision — the act or fact of subdividing.
  • subdivisive — having a quality that subdivides
  • subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
  • subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
  • subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
  • subfreezing — below the freezing point.
  • subgingival — being or occurring under the gums; especially, being or occurring in the crevice between the gum margin and the neck or root of a tooth.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • subimaginal — of or relating to subimago
  • subincision — the slitting of the underside of the penis to the urethra, performed as a puberty rite among some tribal peoples, especially in Australia.
  • subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
  • subindustry — a subdivision of an industry
  • 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.
  • subirrigate — to irrigate beneath the surface of the ground, as with water passing through a system of underground porous pipes or transmitted through the subsoil from ditches, etc.
  • subitaneous — sudden
  • subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
  • subjudicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • sublicensee — a person, company, etc., to whom a sublicense is granted.
  • 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.
  • sublimeness — the state or quality of being sublime
  • subliteracy — below average literacy
  • subliterary — not intended as literature
  • subliterate — less than fully literate.
  • 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.
  • submarginal — Biology. near the margin.
  • submarining — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
  • submergible — submersible.
  • submersible — capable of being submersed.
  • submetallic — somewhat or imperfectly metallic.
  • subminister — to supply
  • submissible — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • submissness — submissiveness
  • submittable — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • submultiple — a number that is contained by another number an integral number of times without a remainder: The number 3 is a submultiple of 12.
  • 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.
  • suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
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