11-letter words containing n, o, b, u, d
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- do business — trade
- do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
- double bind — Psychology. a situation in which a person is given conflicting cues, especially by a parent, such that to obey one cue is to disobey the other.
- double bond — a chemical linkage consisting of two covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by two lines, two dots, or four dots, as CH 2 =CH 2 ; CH 2 :CH 2 ; CH 2 ::CH 2 .
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
- double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
- double-hung — (of a window) having two vertically sliding sashes, each closing a different part of the opening.
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- doxorubicin — a cytotoxic antibiotic, C 27 H 29 NO 11 , derived from a variety of the bacterium Streptomyces peucetius and used in the treatment of sarcoma, malignant lymphoma, acute leukemia, and other cancers.
- dubiousness — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- dumbed down — (jargon) Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
- dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- hold button — a button on a telephone that enables someone to interrupt an incoming call temporarily in order to answer another call.
- honor bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- honor-bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- immune body — antibody
- in/into bud — When a tree or plant is in bud or has come into bud, it has buds on it.
- indigo blue — indigo (def 4).
- indubiously — Synonym of without a doubt.
- lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
- misdoubting — Present participle of misdoubt.
- molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
- moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- mutton bird — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
- muttonbirds — Plural form of muttonbird.
- non-audible — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- nonbuilding — Not being or pertaining to a building.
- nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.