11-letter words containing b, u, s, i, n
- misdoubting — Present participle of misdoubt.
- misnumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- moxibustion — (in Eastern medicine) the burning of moxa on or near a person’s skin as a counterirritant.
- muttonbirds — Plural form of muttonbird.
- nailbrushes — Plural form of nailbrush.
- native bush — indigenous forest
- non-abusive — using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
- non-bilious — Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
- non-obvious — easily seen, recognized, or understood; open to view or knowledge; evident: an obvious advantage.
- nonbusiness — Not a business, or unrelated to business.
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- number sign — a symbol (#) for “number” or “numbered”: item #8 on the list.
- nursing bra — a bra for breastfeeding mothers which provides additional support and has cups that can be folded down so the infant can be fed without the mother having to remove the bra
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obliqueness — The characteristic of being oblique.
- obnoxiously — In an obnoxious manner.
- obscuration — the act of obscuring.
- obstructing — Present participle of obstruct.
- obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- obviousness — The characteristic of being obvious.
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- publishment — publication.
- rubbish bin — trash can
- ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
- rus in urbe — the country in the town
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- 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.
- sibuyan sea — a sea in the Philippines S of Luzon and E of Mindanao: site of U.S.-Japan naval battle 1944.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
- suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subclinical — pertaining to an early stage of a disease; having no noticeable clinical symptoms.
- subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
- subdivision — the act or fact of subdividing.
- 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.