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11-letter words containing n, o, b, u, d

  • north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
  • ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
  • ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
  • out-of-band — 1.   (communications)   The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4.   (software)   Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
  • outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
  • outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
  • outbuilding — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
  • outnumbered — to exceed in number.
  • overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
  • overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
  • paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
  • round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round-robin — a sequence or series.
  • 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.
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • 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.
  • scrub round — to waive; avoid or ignore
  • shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
  • sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • 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.
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
  • subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • superabound — to abound beyond something else.
  • 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.
  • thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
  • tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture
  • tumble down — collapse, fall
  • tumble-down — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
  • unabandoned — forsaken or deserted: an abandoned building; an abandoned kitten.
  • unabolished — not abolished or revoked
  • unabrogated — not abrogated, revoked, or annulled
  • unadoptable — (of children or animals) not able to be adopted or placed in a home
  • unavoidable — unable to be avoided; inevitable: an unavoidable delay.
  • unavoidably — unable to be avoided; inevitable: an unavoidable delay.
  • unbetrothed — engaged to be married: She is betrothed to that young lieutenant.
  • unblindfold — to remove a blindfold from
  • unblossomed — the flower of a plant, especially of one producing an edible fruit.
  • underbodice — a bodice worn under an outer bodice.
  • undoubtable — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
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