11-letter words containing r, u, b, e, o
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- outnumbered — to exceed in number.
- over-budget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overblouses — Plural form of overblouse.
- overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
- overburthen — to overburden
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- overobvious — too obvious
- oxford blue — a dark blue colour
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- perturbator — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- port number — port
- postpuberty — the period after puberty
- powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
- powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- procerebrum — (in certain invertebrates) the front part of the central nervous system
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- 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.
- purple book — 1. (publication) The "System V Interface Definition". The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. 2. (publication) The Wizard Book. See also book titles.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- 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.
- retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
- retributory — characterized by or involving retribution: retributive justice.
- retrobulbar — situated behind the eyeball.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
- 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.
- 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.
- rubber boot — Rubber boots are long boots made of rubber that you wear to keep your feet dry.
- rubber room — Informal. a room padded with foam rubber for the confinement of a violent mentally ill person.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- slumbersome — tired; sleepy
- 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.
- source book — an original writing, as a document, record, or diary, that supplies an authoritative basis for future writing, study, evaluation, etc.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- sub-project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- subarboreal — living or thriving under trees
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.