11-letter words containing n, u, m, b
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- cumulonimbi — Plural form of cumulonimbus.
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- disemburden — to remove a burden from (someone or something)
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- 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.
- dustbin man — (in British English) a man that is employed to collect domestic refuse
- encumbering — Present participle of encumber.
- encumbrance — A burden or impediment.
- funambulate — to walk on a tightrope
- funambulism — The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope.
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- fusion bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- 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.
- grumblingly — While or as if grumbling.
- gum benzoin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- human being — any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
- hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
- illuminable — capable of being illuminated.
- imbursement — (obsolete) The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
- immune body — antibody
- incumbrance — encumbrance.
- incunabulum — A book, single sheet, or image that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe.
- innumerable — very numerous.
- innumerably — very numerous.
- lactalbumin — the simple protein of milk, obtained from whey, used in the preparation of certain foods and in adhesives and varnishes.
- lambrequins — Plural form of lambrequin.
- lime burner — a person who makes lime by burning or calcining limestone, shells, etc.
- lumbaginous — relating to, or suffering from, lumbago
- lumberingly — With heavy, clumsy movements.
- maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- maneuvrable — Alternative form of maneuverable.
- manipulable — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
- manipulably — In a manipulable way.
- mare nubium — (Sea of Clouds) a dark plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 95,000 sq. mi. (245,000 sq. km).