11-letter words containing i, b, r, t, u
- obscurities — Plural form of obscurity.
- obstructing — Present participle of obstruct.
- obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- obstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- obtrusively — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- obumbration — the action of making dim, dark, obfuscated, or eclipsed
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- pietersburg — capital of Northern Transvaal province, South Africa: pop. 26,000
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- reattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- recruitable — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- relubricate — to lubricate again or with new lubricant
- retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
- retributive — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- retributory — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- reusability — reuse
- right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- ritual bath — a mikvah.
- rubbish tip — dump for refuse
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rugby shirt — a knitted pullover sport shirt usually in bold horizontal stripes and having a white collar and neckline placket, styled after the shirts traditionally worn by the members of Rugby teams.
- rumbustical — rumbustious
- rumbustious — rambunctious.
- runnability — to move with haste; act quickly: Run upstairs and get the iodine.
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
- 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-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
- subcritical — Physics. pertaining to a state, value, or quantity that is less than critical, especially to a mass of radioactive material.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subdistrict — a division of a district.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subindustry — a subdivision of an industry
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.