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

  • ombrogenous — (of plants) able to flourish in wet conditions
  • outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
  • outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
  • outbuilding — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
  • overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
  • plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
  • pouring box — tundish (def 2).
  • publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
  • quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
  • ring nebula — a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra that has a ringlike appearance surrounding its central star.
  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • rubber ring — an air-filled ring made of rubber, used as a swimming aid
  • rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • 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.
  • shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
  • spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
  • spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • subimaginal — of or relating to subimago
  • subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • sublanguage — a subvariety of language used in a particular field or by a particular social group and characterized especially by distinctive vocabulary.
  • 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.
  • submergence — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
  • 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.
  • subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • subscribing — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
  • subsegments — a part or division of a segment.
  • subungulate — any member of the superorder of animal termed Subungulata (also called Paenungulata), containing the elephant, sea cow and hyrax, as well as two extinct orders
  • sugar basin — sugar bowl.
  • tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
  • telukbetung — a port on SE Sumatra, in Indonesia.
  • terbrugghen — Hendrik. 1588–1629, Dutch painter of the Utrecht school, who specialized in religious subjects, for example the Incredulity of St Thomas and the Calling of St Matthew
  • thingumabob — thingamajig.
  • tub gurnard — a type of gurnard coastal fish with pectoral fins used for crawling along the seabed
  • tubthumping — to promote something or express opinions vociferously.
  • tuning knob — a knob or dial on a radio used to tune into different stations
  • un-budgeted — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
  • unabatingly — to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish: to abate a tax; to abate one's enthusiasm.
  • unabrogated — not abrogated, revoked, or annulled
  • unagreeable — unpleasant or disagreeable
  • unambiguous — not ambiguous, or unclear; distinct; unequivocal: The object of the experiment was to reach an unambiguous conclusion about climate change.
  • unbefitting — not befitting to a person; not appropriate or suitable
  • unbegetting — (esp referring to God) not begetting or generating a like being
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