11-letter words containing b, u, t, d
- over-budget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- perturbedly — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- public debt — national debt.
- pudibundity — prudery
- redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
- return bend — a 180° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
- round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
- 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.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- spouted bed — A spouted bed is a bed in which the particles are quite big, and contact only happens in an upward movement of fluid in the middle of the bed.
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
- subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subcultured — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subdistrict — a division of a district.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
- subindustry — a subdivision of an industry
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- substandard — below standard or less than adequate: substandard housing conditions.
- sunday best — Sunday clothes.
- surtarbrand — deposits of brown coal embedded in Iceland lava
- tabularised — to tabulate.
- tabularized — to tabulate.
- thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- thumb index — tabs on edge of a book's pages
- thumb-index — to provide (a book) with a thumb index.
- thumbs down — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbs-down — an act or instance of dissent, disapproval, etc.
- thunder bay — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
- thunderbird — (in the mythology of some North American Indians) a huge, eaglelike bird capable of producing thunder, lightning, and rain.
- thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
- tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- toolbuilder — Tool Builder Kit
- trombiculid — (of a mite) belonging to the family Trombiculidae
- troubadours — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
- truckle bed — a low bed moving on casters, usually pushed under another bed when not in use.
- trundle bed — truckle bed.
- tub gurnard — a type of gurnard coastal fish with pectoral fins used for crawling along the seabed
- tube bundle — A tube bundle is a set of tubes in a shell-and-tube heat exchanger.
- tuberculoid — resembling a tubercle.
- tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture
- tumble down — collapse, fall