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

  • corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
  • cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
  • corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
  • corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
  • counterbase — a double bass
  • counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
  • counterblow — a retaliatory blow
  • counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
  • counterbore — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
  • counterbuff — a retaliatory blow
  • course book — A course book is a textbook that students and teachers use as the basis of a course.
  • cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
  • currycombed — Simple past tense and past participle of currycomb.
  • cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
  • cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
  • de beauvoir — Simone (simɔn). 1908–86, French existentialist novelist and feminist, whose works include Le Sang des autres (1944), Le Deuxième Sexe (1949), and Les Mandarins (1954)
  • dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
  • debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
  • demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
  • deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
  • do business — trade
  • doorbusters — Plural form of doorbuster.
  • douay bible — an English translation of the Bible, prepared by Roman Catholic scholars from the Vulgate. The New Testament was published at Rheims in 1582 and the Old Testament was published at Douai in 1609–10.
  • double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double bass — the largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played.
  • double bill — presentation: two films
  • double bind — Psychology. a situation in which a person is given conflicting cues, especially by a parent, such that to obey one cue is to disobey the other.
  • double bond — a chemical linkage consisting of two covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by two lines, two dots, or four dots, as CH 2 =CH 2 ; CH 2 :CH 2 ; CH 2 ::CH 2 .
  • double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
  • double coat — an outer coat of hair on a dog serving as protection against underbrush and resistant to weather, combined with an undercoat of softer hair for warmth and waterproofing.
  • double date — two couples meeting socially
  • double demy — a size of printing paper, 22½ × 35 inches (57 × 89 cm).
  • double dome — an intellectual; egghead.
  • double duty — designed to fill two functions: double-duty tools.
  • double flat — a symbol () that lowers the pitch of the note following it by two semitones.
  • double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
  • double jump — Chess. the advance of a pawn, in its original move only, from its initial position on the second rank to the fourth without stopping at the intervening square.
  • double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
  • double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
  • double life — If you say that someone is living a double life, you mean that they lead two separate and very different lives, and they appear to be a different person in each.
  • double lock — a spring lock that can also serve as a deadbolt by an extra turn of the key
  • double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
  • double room — double (def 13).
  • double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
  • double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
  • double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
  • double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
  • double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • double tide — agger (def 1).
  • double time — a doubled wage rate, paid for working on public holidays, etc
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