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11-letter words containing o, u, b, a

  • order about — to bully or domineer
  • ouija board — board used by spiritualists
  • 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.
  • outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
  • outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
  • outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
  • paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
  • perturbator — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • photo album — bound book for photos
  • plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
  • 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.
  • produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
  • protuberate — to bulge out, forming a rounded projection.
  • prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
  • publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
  • quotability — The degree to which a person, literature, or a speech is useful or relevant for being quoted.
  • rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
  • redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
  • retrobulbar — situated behind the eyeball.
  • rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
  • right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
  • rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
  • rome beauty — a large, red variety of apple, used chiefly for baking.
  • rotary club — a local club of business and professional men that is a member of a world-wide organization of similar clubs (Rotary International) devoted to serving the community and promoting world peace.
  • round about — In spoken English, round about means approximately.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • 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.
  • royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
  • sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
  • saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
  • scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
  • scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
  • scribacious — having the tendency to write a lot or too much
  • scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
  • soap bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
  • soap-bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
  • social club — A social club is a club where members go in order to meet each other and enjoy leisure activities.
  • soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
  • somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
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