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11-letter words containing r, u, n, o

  • broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
  • brown flour — wheat flour that uses approximately 85% of the whole grain
  • brown pound — the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
  • brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
  • brown trout — a common brownish variety of the trout Salmo trutta that occurs in the rivers of N Europe and has been successfully introduced in North America
  • brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • buffer zone — A buffer zone is an area created to separate opposing forces or groups which belongs to neither of them.
  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
  • buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • buon giorno — good day; hello
  • burne-jones — Sir Edward. 1833–98, English Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer of stained-glass windows and tapestries
  • burnet rose — a very prickly Eurasian rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia, with white flowers and purplish-black fruits
  • burning out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
  • burrowstown — a burgh town
  • bus network — (networking)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
  • button tree — any of a genus (Conocarpus) of dicotyledonous West Indian trees with buttonlike fruit
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
  • californium — a metallic transuranic element artificially produced from curium. Symbol: Cf; atomic no: 98; half-life of most stable isotope, 251Cf: 800 years (approx.)
  • call around — If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
  • calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
  • cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
  • canopic urn — an urn used in ancient Egypt to hold and preserve the internal organs of the mummified dead
  • capricornus — a faint zodiacal constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Sagittarius and Aquarius
  • car journey — a trip or voyage made by automobile
  • carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
  • carburation — the process of mixing a hydrocarbon fuel with a correct amount of air to make an explosive mixture for an internal-combustion engine
  • carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
  • carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
  • carniferous — bearing flesh.
  • carnivorous — Carnivorous animals eat meat.
  • carousingly — in a carousing manner
  • carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
  • cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
  • cavernulous — possessing or being full of small cavities
  • centuriator — a historian who compiles work by centuries, esp one of the writers of the Magdeburg Centuries
  • ceremonious — especially or excessively polite or formal
  • chancellour — Archaic form of chancellor.
  • changeround — the process of changing position
  • chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
  • chloroquine — a synthetic drug administered orally to treat malaria. Formula: C18H26ClN3
  • chorus line — the group of dancers who perform routines in a musical
  • churchgoing — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
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