11-letter words containing b, u, n, d
- ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
- ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
- immune body — antibody
- in/into bud — When a tree or plant is in bud or has come into bud, it has buds on it.
- indian club — a metal or wooden club shaped like a large bottle, swung singly or in pairs for exercising the arms.
- indigo blue — indigo (def 4).
- indubiously — Synonym of without a doubt.
- indubitable — that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
- indubitably — that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
- infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
- infundibula — Plural form of infundibulum.
- inturbidate — to make turbid
- landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
- landlubbing — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
- launderable — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- 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.
- 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.
- maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- misdoubting — Present participle of misdoubt.
- misnumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
- moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- mutton bird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- muttonbirds — Plural form of muttonbird.
- non-audible — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- nonbuilding — Not being or pertaining to a building.
- nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
- north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- numbskulled — (informal) stupid.
- ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
- ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- outbuilding — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- outnumbered — to exceed in number.
- overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
- prenumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- pudibundity — prudery
- return bend — a 180° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
- round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.