11-letter words containing n, u, b
- bull tongue — a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard
- bull's nose — bullnose (def 1).
- bull-necked — having a short thick neck
- bullbaiting — a type of blood sport involving the baiting of a bull by dogs
- bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
- bulldogging — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
- bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
- bunch light — a light consisting of a group of small light bulbs mounted in a reflecting box.
- bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
- bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
- bundelkhand — a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh
- bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
- bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
- bungee jump — a jump made by someone from a high bridge, building, etc, secured only by a rubber cord attached to the ankles
- bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
- bunker hill — the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- bunya-bunya — a tall dome-shaped Australian coniferous tree, Araucaria bidwillii, having edible cones (bunya nuts) and thickish flattened needles
- bunyanesque — of immense size or stature, as ascribed to Paul Bunyan or to the other characters, exploits, etc., in the legends about him.
- buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
- buon giorno — good day; hello
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
- burkburnett — a town in N Texas.
- burn center — a specialized medical facility that provides comprehensive care for patients with burn injuries.
- burne-jones — Sir Edward. 1833–98, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer of stained-glass windows and tapestries
- burnet rose — a very prickly Eurasian rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia, with white flowers and purplish-black fruits
- burning out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burns night — (in Scotland) 25 January, the traditional date for holding a celebratory meal (Burns supper) in honour of Robert Burns
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- burnt sugar — caramel
- burnt umber — a brown pigment obtained by heating umber
- burrowstown — a burgh town
- bus network — (networking) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
- bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
- bushbashing — the process of forcing a path through the bush
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushhogging — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- bushranging — the life of a bushranger
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- businessman — A businessman is a man who works in business.
- businessmen — a man regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
- busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
- but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
- butenedioic — designating a type of acid
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- butter bean — Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.
- button down — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.