11-letter words containing e, m, b, d
- motherboard — a rigid, slotted board upon which other boards that contain the basic circuitry of a computer or of a computer component can be mounted. Compare board (def 14).
- multibladed — having multiple blades
- mumble mode — (jargon) The mode a program, piece of hardware, or other system is said to be in when it is still running and perhaps reacting to input and/or occasionally producing output (especially if it shouldn't), but in a way that appears wildly inappropriate to the task it is supposed to perform. Compare "off the trolley" and "deep space".
- mumbledypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- numbskulled — (informal) stupid.
- ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
- outnumbered — to exceed in number.
- pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
- premorbidly — pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
- prenumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- pyramid bet — a set of bets on two or more horse races or other sporting events in which the stake and winnings from the first bet automatically become the stake in the next bet, and so on as long as each bet wins.
- red chamber — the Canadian Senate chamber.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- ride cymbal — a medium-sized cymbal suspended over a set of drums, used for maintaining rhythm patterns since the advent of bop
- sealed-beam — a headlight in which the reflector and lens are hermetically sealed together with the filament in a single unit.
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- smell blood — sense a chance for victory
- strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
- subdelirium — a mild delirium with lucid intervals.
- subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
- subemployed — of or relating to workers affected by subemployment
- sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
- thimbleweed — any of several plants having a thimble-shaped fruiting head, especially either of two white-flowered North American plants, Anemone riparia or A. virginiana.
- 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.
- timber yard — A timber yard is a place where timber is stored and sold.
- 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.
- tumble down — collapse, fall
- tumble-down — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- umbilicated — having an umbilicus
- unamendable — to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure: Congress may amend the proposed tax bill.
- unassembled — noting an artificial gem formed of two or more parts, as a doublet or triplet, at least one of which is a true gemstone.
- unblemished — to destroy or diminish the perfection of: The book is blemished by those long, ineffective descriptions.
- unblossomed — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
- unsubmerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- unsubmitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
- waved umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Menophra abruptaria, that is cryptically marked to merge with tree bark