11-letter words containing r, u, n, e, b
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- perturbment — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- port number — port
- powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
- prenumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- queensberry — John Sholto Douglas, 8th Marquis of, 1844–1900, Scottish nobleman and sponsor of modern boxing rules.
- raster burn — 1. (Or terminal illness) Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-resolution, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, especially graphics monitors. 2. The "burn-in" condition your CRT tends to get if you don't use a screen saver.
- real number — a rational number or the limit of a sequence of rational numbers, as opposed to a complex number.
- remunerable — to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
- retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
- return bend — a 180° bend, as in a plumbing pipe.
- ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
- ring nebula — a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra that has a ringlike appearance surrounding its central star.
- 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 band — a narrow, circular or oblong band of rubber, used for holding things together, as papers or a box and its lid.
- rubber ring — an air-filled ring made of rubber, used as a swimming aid
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
- runner bean — string bean (defs 1, 2).
- rus in urbe — the country in the town
- saarbrucken — a state in W Germany, in the Saar River valley. 991 sq. mi. (2569 sq. km). Capital: Saarbrücken.
- sauerbraten — a pot roast of beef, marinated before cooking in a mixture of vinegar, sugar, and seasonings.
- scrub nurse — a nurse specially trained to assist surgeons in the operating room and serving as part of the surgically clean medical team handling instruments during an operation.
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- 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.
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- sub-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- submergence — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- subminister — to supply
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subservient — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
- suburbanize — to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area.
- sun bittern — a graceful South American wading bird, Eurypyga helias, related to the cranes and rails, having variegated plumage.
- superabound — to abound beyond something else.
- tamburlaine — Tamerlane.
- terbrugghen — Hendrik. 1588–1629, Dutch painter of the Utrecht school, who specialized in religious subjects, for example the Incredulity of St Thomas and the Calling of St Matthew
- terbutaline — a selective beta-adrenergic receptor agonist substance, C 12 H 19 NO 3 , used in the treatment of asthma.