11-letter words containing r, i, b, o, n, u
- 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.
- neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
- neurofibril — a fibril of a nerve cell.
- neuroglobin — (protein) Any of a class of vertebrate globins involved in cellular oxygen homeostasis.
- northumbria — an early English kingdom extending N from the Humber to the Firth of Forth.
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- objurgating — Present participle of objurgate.
- objurgation — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- obscuration — the act of obscuring.
- obstructing — Present participle of obstruct.
- obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- obumbration — the action of making dim, dark, obfuscated, or eclipsed
- oil-burning — that uses paraffin, esp as a domestic fuel
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- pouring box — tundish (def 2).
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
- ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
- round-robin — a sequence or series.
- rowing club — rowboat association
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
- ruling body — authority, group in charge
- saburration — the use of heated sand in healing
- 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.
- soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- 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.
- subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- tourbillion — a whirlwind or something resembling a whirlwind.
- tribulation — grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
- underbodice — a bodice worn under an outer bodice.
- unforbidden — a past participle of forbid.
- unignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- unignorably — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- unlaborious — not involving great exertion or long effort
- unlabouring — not labouring