11-letter words containing b, u, o, e
- over-budget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overblouses — Plural form of overblouse.
- overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
- overburthen — to overburden
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- overobvious — too obvious
- oxford blue — a dark blue colour
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- perturbator — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
- port number — port
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- postpuberty — the period after puberty
- pouncet box — a small perfume box with a perforated lid.
- powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
- powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- procerebrum — (in certain invertebrates) the front part of the central nervous system
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
- protuberate — to bulge out, forming a rounded projection.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
- pulley bone — wishbone (def 1).
- purple book — 1. (publication) The "System V Interface Definition". The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. 2. (publication) The Wizard Book. See also book titles.
- puzzle book — a book of games or questions presenting problems that require skill or ingenuity for their solution
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- quebecoises — a native or inhabitant of Quebec, especially one who is from the city of Quebec and whose native language is French.
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
- retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
- retributory — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- retrobulbar — situated behind the eyeball.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
- round table — conference, meeting
- round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
- rubber boot — Rubber boots are long boots made of rubber that you wear to keep your feet dry.
- rubber room — Informal. a room padded with foam rubber for the confinement of a violent mentally ill person.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- slop bucket — slop pail.
- slumbersome — tired; sleepy
- soap bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.